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A Couple of Poetic French Songs

Culture
Written by Alice Poon (潘慧嫻)
Monday, 17 June 2013
Francoise Hardy’s magical rendition of a couple of very poetic French songs has plucked at my heartstrings and put me in translation mode. ...

My YouTube Channel

Culture
Written by Alice Poon (潘慧嫻)
Thursday, 13 June 2013
The Alice Poon YouTube Channel is for lovers of golden oldies. The playlist features oldies in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and French – some evergreens, some forgotten gems – and is interspersed with classical and opera pieces. ...

Salome the Opera

Culture
Written by Alice Poon (潘慧嫻)
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
It has been said often enough that music has no nationality. Sometimes, a piece of art can transcend culture and language to reach an apex of perfection, in which music and story fuse to produce a stunning art form that grips the heart and mind of the audience. Richard Strauss’ operatic gem “Salome” in German, based on Oscar Wilde’s French play, perhaps deserves to be counted amongst such pieces. ...

A Story of White

Hong Kong's Past
Written by Alice Poon (潘慧嫻)
Friday, 10 May 2013
White has always been my favorite color. White flowers seem to have a special power over me. Whenever I buy flowers, I would invariably pick up either white roses, or white orchids or white freesias. In many cultures the color white symbolizes purity, perfection and truth. In my own fantasyland, it is a color that speaks of liberty and versatility – it can be at once a non-color and a rainbow-color. No other color is more perfect. ...

Original Sin of Chinese Capitalism

Hong Kong Current Events
Written by Alice Poon (潘慧嫻)
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
In a 2007 post, I shared my own observation on the irony of capitalism. If anything, the 2008 global financial debacle would seem to testify to a grain of truth in the ironic and disastrous outcome of American capitalism. But capitalism with Chinese characteristics (not in the specific sense of Yasheng Huang’s book) – in reality just a Western economic concept that has been grafted onto Chinese soil - appears to be even more egregious, owing probably to its putrid fusion with a deeply implanted class-discriminating and serf mind-set in the Chinese culture. ...

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About the blogger:

Alice is the author and publisher of the book “Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong”, which was featured as Editor’s Choice: Scholarly for September/October 2007 by Canadian Book Review Annual. The full review can be found in the November 1, 2007 blogpost under her original blog, which she started in August 2007 and was relocated here in late October 2007. She has also been a contributor of articles to Asia Sentinel since August 2006 and had previously been a financial journalist with Stockhouse Media.

Prior to her writing stint, Alice worked in the property development industry in both Hong Kong and Canada for over 20 years. Previous to that, she had been involved with the establishment of Hong Kong’s first and only Commodity Exchange.