Category: Literature

• After a long silence

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• Race you there

  ‘Race you there’ was kindly republished online in 2024 by Satellites, a living archive project to “connect the past, present and future of Aotearoa Asian art.” Editor Emma Ng writes: “In this first issue, we’re republishing Tze Ming Mok’s iconic essay ‘Race you there’. The piece, which was the joint winner of the Landfall Prize…

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• 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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• 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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• Lost in the forest

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• Poem: Bad Example

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