This essay gives my belated response to my friend’s ten-year-old daughter who must have turned eleven by now. When mother and daughter visited us in Tasmania last year, my husband and I were planning to move back to Perth. Of the few travel options, we had once toyed with the idea of driving, and even[…]
Thank you so much to Sarah Okenyo of Derwent Valley Arts who interviewed me on the 8th of December. I’ve copied the write-up of the interview here. To read the full version of the newsletter, please go to: https://mailchi.mp/bdd93c50501a/spring-newsletter-6252321?e=f52bb80176 I also like to thank Sophie Reid for taking photographs on the day. Please visit her[…]
There was a time in Hong Kong when literature was considered a dream subject in the university; only those with top marks were admitted to the Faculty. Of the two official languages in the colonial days, Chinese literature was less popular a choice than English literary studies probably because a good command of English, both[…]
14 June 2020 The road of recovery sometimes leads to self-discovery. Fighting an illness takes time and patience. At a time of inactivity when the body is resting, there’s nothing better than reflecting on things that matter in life. You might think that I am going to write about Covid-19; I’d rather leave this topic[…]
4 June 2020 What would Aziz and Fielding be thinking of in the last scene of EM Forster’s novel A Passage to India? They had been great friends but did not manage to remain so largely because of their inherently conflicting identities. The last few paragraphs describe how they moved further away from one another[…]
27th May 2020 I do not know anyone as obsessed with classification, and labelling as human. All other animals, living things and objects in the nature are oblivious of their existence. Unlike humankind, they are simply there without asking why and how, or for how long, let alone what it is called. A stone did[…]
12th May 2020 Hermann Hesse’s essay “Zarathustra’s Return: A word to German youth” written in 1919 gives some thoughts on the topics of destiny and integrity, action and suffering, and solitude, all of which are of great relevance to me at this stage of my life. Though no longer young, I feel both excited and[…]
Updated on 18 May, 2020, Tasmania It is important that we spend time trying to understand what is happening around us at a time of change. Recently, I made an enormous change in life. Having said goodbye to a teaching career that lasted for decades, I embarked on a new journey, both literally and[…]
Home Date February 19, 2016 (Friday) Time 12:00 – 13:00 Speaker Susanna Ho Moderator Victoria Caplan Venue LG4 Multi-Function Room Language English http://lbcone.ust.hk/booktalk/?p=88 Tags: DIALECT NOVEL SUSANNA HO About the Talk Dr. Susanna Ho of the Center for Language Education at HKUST will discuss and compare her two novels: Mother’s Tongue: A Story of Forgiving[…]
