Life in a City on Two Calendars: Co-existence between the Solar and Lunar Hong Kong

To many people from across the world, Hong Kong is a city where the East meets the West. This encounter gives rise to a unique lifestyle that may be understood as traversing between two calendars – the Solar and the Lunar. Theoretically the Lunar calendar refers to the traditional cycle that agricultural Chinese society observes. Although 21st century Hong Kong can hardly be considered as agricultural, the Lunar calendar does exert significant force upon people’s life throughout the year, while the busy, urban, and material life speeds on with the Solar calendar. This is a creative non-fiction presenting the dual life of Hong Kong, from the beginning to the end of a year, between the two calendars. The Lunar calendar marks the important beginning of a new year when people look up their fortune according to their Chinese zodiac, while the Solar calendar presents the festivities in a highly commercial and material urban setting.

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Aldebaran

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Wandering the Dark Path: A “How To” Spell for Creating a Wicked Walk

Ghosts and ghost walks have always conjured public interest in visiting haunted locales. More recently dubbed, dark tourism, these highly specialized events have proved both an educational tool, in which to preserve and celebrate local history, as well as a boon to area economies. This article examines the importance of haunted history and offers a valuable strategy, as well as practical examples, for those individuals and/or organizations looking to create their very own dark tourism ghost walk.

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The Impossible Heap

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Three Poems: ‘Ping’, ‘Ariachne’, and ‘Dissolution

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Ashes of a Glasshouse

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The Devil You Know

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The Things that Haunt

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Hearing the Birds Pause

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Dr Tulp and the Theatre of Zoom – an autopsy of time and presence

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Terminal

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As Well As/Instead Of Orpheus: Making, teaching and living in grief

Please be aware there are discussions of suicide and suicidal ideation throughout this piece. There are also images that are quite integral to the piece. These can be viewed in the PDF.

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Crossroads

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trash trolls and toad pools poems & photos from the lost valley of the fairies

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Hawk Tongue

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Fairies Frequented Several

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trash trolls and toad pools poems & photos from the lost valley of the fairies

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The Calling on Song

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Campus Visit

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The Empty House, by Richard J. Hand

This is a script and MP3 recording of an original, 13.5 minute audio play. The audio narrative explores the essay’s themes in a darkly comic tale of terror about an estate agent’s auditory experiences in an empty house.

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