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Ping Pong Vol. 4 marks the Hong Kong publication’s continuing shift away from comics to the world of illustration. Titled Field Guide Collection, this latest volume finds its artists cataloguing various objects, behaviors and techniques through their drawings. As with the previous issue, the collective…
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Tom Mullaney (professor of Chinese history + technology at Stanford) is running a Kickstarter campaign around exhibiting and preserving the fascinating history of the Chinese typewriter. One highlight of his exhibition will be centered around how Chinese engineers cracked the puzzle on creating a typewriter…
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Unlike book fairs elsewhere, the Hong Kong Book Fair targets the general public. Instead of a fair where publishing companies to get together to negotiate rights and licenses, the Hong Kong Book Fair is a giant discount-books supermarket, where visitors are encouraged to buy in bulk. Many do by…
Continue readingHong Kong Book Fair 2015: a hodgepodge of concepts, publishers and distributors
Ending today. Hong Kong’s annual art fair featuring works from galleries from all over (with Asian galleries dominating). Well attended by locals passing by, visitors flying in and from early reports, also by prominent buyers and sellers.
Above: A local favorite that blends traditional Chinese landscape painting with modern Hong Kong skyscrapers. I wonder if people unfamiliar with…