For its size, Yu Yuen sits inconspicuously at the end of a cul-de-sac in Tung Tau Wai, a fairly unremarkable village in Yuen Long, in Hong Kong’s New Territories. The grand, two-storey, European-style mansion has eight bedrooms, and a fountain in its front yard. Its name means “entertainment garden” in Chinese. Yet it is abandoned, … Read more
The building is open to visitors keen to learn more about the organisation’s long history of protecting the young and innocent – the only out-of-bounds area being the children’s residential area on the second floor. The entrance to Po Leung Kuk’s headquarters in Causeway Bay is a traditional Chinese “paifang” gate. Photo: Jonathan Wong Enter … Read more
The malaria of the title is probably not malaria as we understand it today. In fact, apart from a few official medical references, people at the time rarely used that word. Christopher Cowell, author of Form Follows Fever, describes himself as “an architect and accidental academic”. Photo: Yik Yeung-man In 1843, when the city – … Read more
