Chin Woo—Part 2
The myth—Most Chinese are brought up believing that the great martial arts practitioner Huo Yuan Jia founded Chin Woo. This is incorrect according to the…
Chin Woo—Part 2
The myth—Most Chinese are brought up believing that the great martial arts practitioner Huo Yuan Jia founded Chin Woo. This is incorrect according to the…
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Chin Woo or Jingwu in Hanyu Pinyin—Part 1
Most Malaysians would be familiar with the Chin Woo Stadium located at a hillock opposite the iconic KL Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall. The Chin Woo…
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Artemis II
Some quirky facts on the US space program. Mr. Bean is a British comedy created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, which first aired on…
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Book of Job—Part 2
Of God and Faith The NIV Study Bible (1985 ed.) posits a few interesting points— 1) The author of Job is sure to be an…
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Book of Job—Part 1
The Book of Job is an easy read based on a literal interpretation. But its theology is quite disconcerting. This is because its heart or…
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Antisemitism—Part 1
In this 2024 hardcover book, How the West Became Antisemitic, Ivan G. Marcus, a professor of Jewish history at Yale University, argues that in medieval…
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Sir Robert Ho Tung – Part 2
The biography by May Holdsworth (2022) is noteworthy in two aspects. Firstly, she highlighted that Ho Tung was the person who put forward the idea…
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Sir Robert Ho Tung
This is an excellent biography. Highly readable based on the personal papers of the man himself. Ho Tung was a self-made man. His dad was…
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HK University Press bookstore
If you are keen on HK history, a good, albeit small, shop to browse is the Hong Kong University Press (HKUP). It is located on…
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A Bond Beyond Politics
Why does the US support Israel through thick and thin? This question is the subject of two books—Our American Israel by Amy Kaplan, 2018, and…
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