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It’s Time To Fundamentally Upgrade The Way That We Do Things In Hong Kong Through Creative Thinking—Edmund Lee, Executive Director Of Hong Kong Design Centre
19-05-20 Creative thinking(創意思維) is not the same as creativity(創作). It is about how anyone of us can solve a problem or understand an issue differently and imaginatively at work or in life. Barack Obama said, “To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is…
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STARTUPS ARE NOT FOR MONEY, BUT FREEDOM BEYOND MONEY
20-4-20 With the coronavirus economic recession, we are like facing World War III. We are ransacked by devastating declines in GDP, real income, employment, service production and retail sales. The Irish said, “Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free! I follow the plan God laid by me.” Now, you are poor and get nothing…
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THE OLD OLD CHERRY OF HOME: ROMANTIC TSIM SHA TSUI OF HONG KONG IN THE 50S & 60S
06-04-20 Hong Kong is small. We do not have hometowns. We have ‘home districts’. We miss our home districts. Where we came from is now gone. But, your heart is obsessively held by the beautiful district that you cannot forget. Let us examine the old old districts of Hong Kong, say around 100 years ago.…
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“IT IS A BIG MISTAKE TO THINK OF A MARKET WITHOUT A NEW MARKET!” ——HONG KONG TV PATRIARCH NG YU COMPARES ART AND ENTERTAINMENT MARKETS
12-04-20 One market leads to another. Doors are all locked when we cannot keep our own market. Instagrammer Caleb Hsu made this point, “When aesthetic purpose precedes exposure and sales considerations, art wins over entertainment. It starts with artistic intention and results in audience response. Entertainment is more about artifice, whereas art has a strong…
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‘WHY ARE HONG KONG MEN CHARMING IN OUR OWN WAYS?’—ANDREW PONG, THE DEVOUT ARTIST WORSHIPER OF BRUCE LEE
31-03-20 It is more than a self-consolation. Men do not have to be handsome. A charming man gets more proposals than a handsome man. Men in Hong Kong, a female-dominating society, often feel small as we may not have a face with clean-cut features such as the Japanese. We are not as tall as the…
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THE 9 THINGS THAT ANDY HEI TAUGHT YOU ON COLLECTING ANTIQUES IN HONG KONG
09-03-20 Hong Kong traded some of the most beautiful antiques that the world has ever seen. We are a free port without currency control. Laws to regulate antique trade are almost non-existent. Hollywood Road in Central is like a repository for collectible items from 83 dynasties of China. The road collects and distributes antiques. It…
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WILL HONG KONG LIVE A POOR LIFE AFTER COVID-19—MAYBE, MAYBE NOT
23-03-20 Coronavirus is disgusting. It is a highly infectious disease and can remain with us with no cure. From epidemic to pandemic, the virus keeps on person-to-person spreading in multiple countries. When will it stop? “How many deaths will it take till he knows. That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is…
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HOW DOES ‘ART TRAVEL’ WORK IN HONG KONG—THE BOLD DREAM OF DAISY LI
28-02-20 Curiosity is an inborn instinct. We are in love with the unknown places away from Hong Kong, whether they are cities, mountains or oceans. We love to meet people whom we have never met and treasure the moment of encounter. There is no love sincerer than that for good sleep, food, shopping, spa and…
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FROM QUESTIONS TO ACTIONS: THE NEW CONCEPT OF A CO-PROJECT SPACE—SHIBUYA QWS IN JAPAN
21-02-20 Shibuya is the most trendy and charming shopping district of Tokyo—resembling a wave of diamonds, glittering day and night till the end of the world. Among all draws of Shibuya is her world-famous ‘Shibuya Scramble Crossing’. It is located right in front of the Shibuya Train Station and traffic lights stops regularly vehicles in…