Andrew ShieldsJan 29, 2025

Cover the lid and leave it brewing for exactly 90 seconds

How To Make Tea In Chinese New Year
Hongwei Bao

#Poetry #HongweiBao #DodgingTheRain #MakingTea #ChineseNewYear #ComingOut

https://dodgingtherain.com/2025/01/29/9536/

Hongwei Bao, How to Make Tea in Chinese New Year

How to Make Tea in Chinese New Year It’s Chinese New Year.You are at home with your parentsand your boyfriend is at home with his,having to deal with interrogations about whether he has a girlfrien…

DODGING THE RAIN
Of Bookish ThingsJan 17, 2025

A sense of freedom: #China’s small #bookshops relocate across the world

As #BookStores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseas

“When anger becomes infectious, / when words are seen to be dangerous, / leave me blank, please!” #HongweiBao, an associate professor at the University of Nottingham #Poetry #Books #Reading #Literature #BannedBooks #Censorship

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/24/a-sense-of-freedom-chinas-small-bookshops-relocate-across-the-world

‘A sense of freedom’: China’s small bookshops relocate across the world

As stores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseas

The Guardian
Andrew ShieldsMay 27, 2024

Our shadows overlapped briefly

Hair in the Basin
Hongwei Bao

#Poetry #InkSweatAndTears #HongweiBao #Hair #Hotel #Literature #Elevator

https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2024/05/25/hair-in-the-basin/

Hair in the Basin

In the basin of my hotel bathroom, I see a strand of hair. A single black, thin and long hair quietly perching on the surface of white porcelain. Slightly wet, slightly curly, unapologetically decl…

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