Author: tzeming

• Poem: last time in Hong Kong

  last time in Hong Kong it’s years and years ago and I’mtoo shy to say diu lei ge lo mo de chou haito the official office spycos Keith Ng from the past reckonsI say it like a Mainlander.My accent is a war crime,he should’ve made me practice more beforeI got here. I’ve been speaking Mandarinbadly…

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• Essay: Black Asian, White Asian

  From ‘Black Asian, White Asian: Racial Histories and East Asian Choices in the White Settler State’ in Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand: [U]ndoing white supremacy and colonialism …requires acknowledging East Asians’ colour-based privilege in white societies now, how our own pre- and post-colonial cultural history has generated racial thinking, and deeper…

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• Poem: We had a dream

  Response poem to an artwork, commissioned by the Auckland Art Gallery for their Year of the Snake Lunar New Year Festival. Performed 1 February 2025. We had a dream So, by way of introduction: this is a Snake Year poem for Yang Fudong’s 2014 piece‘Tianse: Xin Nuxìng II’ / 天色：新奴性 II / ‘The Coloured Sky:…

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• Essay: Lost in the forest

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• Poem: Bad Example

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