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The writer Kit Fan likes his readers to know, at least initially, where – and when – he is taking them. His first novel, published in 2021 and set in 1987, is called Diamond Hill, and its location is mostly confined to the Hong Kong neighbourhood it is named after. Diamond Hill was Hong Kong’s equivalent of Hollywood during its heyday after World War II. But by the late 1980s, i...

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When Winston Churchill stood in the House of Lords in October 1943 and made the case to rebuild the bomb-ravaged House of Commons exactly as it was, he had just the thing to say: “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” The dogged British leader was no architectural scholar, but he was a master of the turn of phrase. His quote has lingered ever since as a concise refl...

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Growing up in the suburbs of Glasgow as one of only two Chinese children in her primary school, Eliza Chan rarely questioned her identity. Although her thick Scottish accent is the first thing you would notice about her, she says it was simply “normal” to be stopped on the street in her small town and asked where she was really from. “It was one of those childhoods where I don’t...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That’s right: he actually wants to be taken. “I even picture the scenario in my head: I’m sitting out there alone, and a beam of light comes down,” he says. “It’s not a spacecraft that’s hovering over me. It’s just a beam of light from space. And I just get lifted up into that beam of light, and I appear...

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There is no perfect way to raise children. But if you are despairing because of unruly kids, adopting some Japanese parenting methods could be the way to go. Japanese parenting emphasises unconditional love, community and harmony with nature, as ways to nurture well-behaved, respectful and creative children, says author Lisa Katayama, who used Japanese methods to bring up her ow...

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