Alice Poon

Updated Archive Link

2009-11-01T19:59:00.001-08:00

Here is the updated archive link to the Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

The following are blog posts written since the last update:-

- Stories of the Poor Lack Market (Hong Kong Current Events)

- Fret of the 4th Generation HKers (Hong Kong Current Events)

- Chinese Peasants and Democracy (Democracy)

- Identity Not Equal to Pride (Hong Kong Current Events)

Updated Archive Link

2009-10-01T13:56:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated archive link to Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

These are blog posts written since the last update:-

- The Grey Area of Chinese Filmmaking (Culture)

- Learning from the Past (World Current Events)

- Hong Kong In Your Eyes (Hong Kong Current Events)

- Black is White, White is Black (Hong Kong Current Events)

Updated Archive Link

2009-09-08T09:56:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated archive link to the Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

This is a list of blog posts written since the last update:-

- A Brown Nose (Democracy)

- The Meaning of a Deep Bow (World Current Events)

- Manners and Morals (Culture)

- Discussing the Unspeakable - Euthanasia (Culture)

- An Open Letter in Support of Xu Zhiyong (Civic Rights)

- A Corporate Drama of Perfidy (China Current Events)

Updated Archive Link to Alice Poon Blog

2009-08-02T09:05:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated archive link to the Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

The following is a list of blog posts since the last update:-

- A Deadly Education System (China Current Events)

- U.S. Fed in the Hot Seat (U.S. Economy)

- HSBC and the Negative Equity Rich Man (China Current Events)

- Venal Chinese Corporates (China Current Events)

- Unhappy Hong Kong (Hong Kong Current Events)

Updated Archive Link

2009-07-01T11:22:00.001-07:00

Here is the updated archive link to Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

This is a list of blog posts since the last update:-

- Declaration of Anti-Green Dam Site Host (China Current Events)

- A Rich Country with Poor People (China Current Events)

- Forced Sale is the Antithesis of Free Market (Hong Kong Current Events)

- Some Thoughts on Chinese Traditions (Culture)

- Internet with Chinese Characteristics (Culture)

- Legal Aspects of the Deng Yujiao Case (China Current Events)

- In Praise of Song Poet Su Shi (Culture)

- A Story About Tang Poet Bai Juyi (Culture)

Updated Archive Link to the Alice Poon Blog

2009-06-02T12:37:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated archive link to the Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

This is a list of blog posts since the last update:-

- When Excessive Force Is Not Excessive (China Current Events)
- On the Anti-Graft Front, Hong Kong Can Teach (China Current Events)
- A Song To Remember (Hong Kong Culture)
- Media Control In China Has Changed In Nature (China Current Events)
- June 4th Is A Matter of Conscience (Hong Kong Current Events)
- 70 MPH Becomes An Internet Catch Phrase (China Current Events)
- Is Bubble Reinflating the Right Way to Go? (China Current Events)
- A Proper Use of Obscenities (China Current Events)
- Can Civil Society Thrive In China? (Civic Rights)

Updated Archive Link

2009-05-01T18:35:00.000-07:00

Here is the updated archive link to my blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

This is a list of blog posts since the last update:-

- Law Abiding Is Not Chinese (China Current Events)
- Are We Neglecting the Food Crisis? (World Current Events)
- The Wrath of Public Opinion (Hong Kong Current Events)
- Two Blog Posts Make A Beichuan Suicide Look Suspicious (China Current Events)
- My Translation of A Li Bai Poem (Culture)
- Bad Idea To Park Your Money In Stocks (US Economy)
- Chinese Civilization and Democracy (Democracy)
- The Carousel of Fraud (Social Justice)
- Is "Unhappy China" Just A Show? (Culture)
- Satire Lost In A Foreign Language (Culture)

Updated Archive Link

2009-04-01T09:18:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated archive link to the Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

This is a list of blog posts written since the last update:-

- Visible and Invisible Walls (China Current Events)
- Must A Girl Marry? (Culture)
- Why Corruption Will Never End in China (China Current Events)
- Nostalgic Images of Hong Kong (Hong Kong's Past)
- A Lost Symbol of the Rich (Hong Kong's Past)
- Ego and Freedom (Civic Rights)
- Formula That Blew Up Wall Street (U.S. Economy)
- Shameless Officials, Poor People (Social Justice)

Updated Archive Link to My Blog

2009-03-02T15:08:00.000-08:00

Here is the updated archive link to the Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

These are the blog posts written since the last update:-

- Trust No One But Yourself (Capitalism)
- An Amazingly Odd Language (Part 2) (Culture)
- An Amazingly Odd Language! (Culture)
- The UBS Irony (World Current Events)
- A Lone Wolf of A Child (China Current Events)
- Americans' View of China After 2008 (China Current Events)
- A High School Student's Nightmare (China Current Events)
- Why Aren't Regulators Co-opting Whistleblowers? (Hong Kong Current Events)
- The Chinese Internet - Sea Changes in 2008 (China Current Events)
- A Chinese Novelist's Perspective on China's Young (China Current Events)

Updated Archive Link to My Blog

2009-02-01T20:10:00.000-08:00

Here is an updated archive link to my blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

The following are blog posts since my last update:-

- Let's Just Cross Our Fingers! (Hong Kong Current Events)
- Can Hong Kongers Relate to "Cape No. 7"? (Hong Kong Culture)
- Unconvincing Speech (Hong Kong Current Events)
- 2009 - Time for China to Remember? (China Current Events)
- Ominous Exodus from Chinese Bank Shares (China Current Events)
- Like Minds, Like Words (Democracy)
- Human Flesh Search - An Anti-Corruption Tool? (China Current Events)
- A Pompous Quagmire (Hong Kong Current Events)
- The Journalism Education Gap (China Current Events)

Updated Archive Link to My Blog at Asia Sentinel

2009-01-01T12:09:00.000-08:00

Here is an updated archive link to my blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

List of blogposts since the last update:-

- Leaders Are No Longer Idols (China Current Events)

- Macau Tidbits (Travel)

- Hubris and Improbity (Capitalism)

- What's In A Name? (Culture)

Updated Archive Link to My Blog at Asia Sentinel

2008-12-03T00:06:00.000-08:00

Here's an updated archive link to the Alice Poon Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://alicepoon.asiasentinel.com

List of blogposts since the last update:-

- A Gem of Hong Kong (Hong Kong Culture)

- Hello Hong Kong! (Hong Kong Current Events)

- Simple Life, Simple Food (Hong Kong's Past)

- The Great Reckoning (US Economy)

- Rights of Reporters Affirmed (China Current Events)

- The Art of Speech (Democracy)

- No Easy Fix for Hong Kong's Economy (Hong Kong Current Events)

A New Review by Hong Kong Blogs Review and Updated Archive Link

2008-11-01T14:08:00.000-07:00

Sham Shui Po Boy at Hong Kong Blogs Review has just written a new review of my blog. Here is the link to the review:-

http://www.hong-kong-blogs-review.com/alice.php

Here is an updated link to the Archive Page of my blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

Below is a list of blogposts since the last update:-

- A Task Force to Save the Poor Rich (Hong Kong Current Events)
- HSBC's TV Commercial (World Current Events)
- Why Have China's Reforms Stalled? (China Current Events)
- Unlucky Shareholders (Capitalism)
- English Skills and A Culture of Apathy (Hong Kong Culture)
- Judicial Farce (China Current Events)
- Random Thoughts (Culture)
- Book Reviews - Two Books, One Message (China Current Events)
- Anatomy of Greed (Capitalism)

Updated Archive Link to Alice Poon's Blog

2008-10-01T10:30:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated archive link to Alice Poon's Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

Listed below are blogposts written since the last update:-

- Americans Were Right To Say No! (US Economy)
- Loving One's Own Is Not Enough (China Current Events)
- Bailout for Bankers, Sellout for Taxpayers (US Economy)
- America and China Are So Alike! (Social Justice)
- Will the U.S. Follow Lehman's Footsteps? (US Economy)
- Hackers' Good Deed at Tsinghua University (China Current Events)
- Response to Shih Wing-ching's Essay (Hong Kong Current Events)
- Unspeakable Savagery Against Women (Culture)

Updated Archive Link to Alice Poon's Blog

2008-09-02T11:40:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated link to the archive page of Alice Poon's Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

Below is a list of blogposts since the last update:-

- Book Review - Out of Mao's Shadow (China Current Events)
- China's Sea Turtles (China Current Events)
- Behind the Gold Medal Haul (China Current Events)
- Hong Kong's Culture of Concrete (Hong Kong Current Events)
- Bush's Speeches of Candor (Civic Rights)
- Farewell, Solzhenitsyn (Culture)
- Hong Kong As a Role Model for Shenzhen (Civic Rights)

Updated Archive Link to Alice Poon's Blog

2008-08-01T16:56:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated link to the archive page of Alice Poon's Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

List of blogposts since the last update:-

- One Country Two Cultures (Culture)
- Plush Govt. HQ - Not Just An Image Problem (China Current Events)
- Damage Control Needs Dexterity (China Current Events)
- Netizens As Locomotive (China Current Events)
- Success At An Odious Cost (China Current Events)
- Hong Kong Pain (Hong Kong Current Events)
- Book Excerpts - Out of Mao's Shadow (China Current Events)

Updated Archive Link to Alice Poon's Blog

2008-07-08T10:42:00.000-07:00

Here is an updated link to the archive page of my Asia Sentinel blog:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

The following is a list of blogposts since the last update:-

- Mass Incidents and Information Openness (China Current Events)
- What About The Truth? (China Current Events)
- White Collar Lifestyle (China Current Events)
- Overseas Chinese Deserve Love Too (China Current Events)
- The Internet As A Goad For Democracy (China Current Events)
- Defying Malpractices Is A Social Responsibility (Hong Kong Current Events)
- Book Review - Wolf Totem (Culture)
- Thoughts On A Sichuan Trip - Prelude (China Current Events)
- The Audacity of Independent Viewpoint (China Current Events)
- Can June 4th Be Forgotten? (Social Justice)
- The China Alltop Site (Alice Poon)
- A Song For The Sichuan Quake Orphans (China Current Events)

Updated Archive Link to Alice Poon's Blog

2008-06-01T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here is the link to the updated Archive Page of Alice Poon's Blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

The following is a list of posts since the last update on May 1, 2008:-

- Conflation of Liberty and Shamelessness (China Current Events)
- China Strives To Be Understood (China Current Events)
- China's Fourth Estate - Chance for Reform (China Current Events)
- To Be Blind Is To Be Callous (China Current Events)
- Toothless Competition Law (Hong Kong Current Events)
- Time for Compassion (China Current Events)
- Hong Kong Shame (Hong Kong Current Events)
- Chinese Youth Need Own Group Belief (China Current Events)

Updated Archive Link to Alice Poon's Blog

2008-05-01T10:44:00.000-07:00

This is an updated link to the archive page of the Alice Poon blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

Here is a list of recent posts that you will find in the above link:-

- Misplaced Passion (Part 2) (China Current Events)
- Misplaced Passion (Part 1) (China Current Events)
- The Public Open Space Conundrum (Hong Kong Land Policy)
- Bridging the East-West Gap (China Current Events)
- Global Food Crisis and Corporate Titans (World Current Events)
- Readings on Tibet (China Current Events)
- A Tale of Two Chinese in Italy (Culture)
- Capitalism and Income Inequality (Social Justice)
- Hong Kong Bourse Needs Stronger Watchdog (HKEx)

Cheers,
Alice

Updated Archive Link to Alice Poon's Blog

2008-04-03T10:43:00.000-07:00

This is an updated link to the archive of the Alice Poon blog at Asia Sentinel:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

Here is a list of my recent posts that you will find in the above link:-

- Kudos to Dr. Seuss (Culture)
- Man Must Make His Choice (China Current Events)
- Mother-Tongue Teaching A Flop (Hong Kong Culture)
- A Matter of Privacy (Civic Rights)
- Free Market and Fairness (Social Justice)
- A Debt of Gratitude (Hong Kong's Past)
- Chinese Corporate Culture (Culture)
- Hong Kong's Polarizing Fortunes (Hong Kong Land Policy)
- Bird's Nest and the Laborer (China Current Events)
- A Battle of Style and Gender (World Current Events)
- Lessons from Two Celebrity Tales (Hong Kong Current Events)
- The Orchid and Confucius (Culture)
- Uncultivated Reading Culture (Hong Kong Culture)

Kung Hei Fat Choy!

2008-02-07T11:24:00.000-08:00

恭喜發財! 鼠年快樂!

Here is the link to the Archive Page of the "Alice Poon" Blog at Asia Sentinel (it's the fastest way to access my blogposts as this page is automatically updated and the posts are in date order with the latest at the top):-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=21&Itemid=158

Cheers,
Alice

New Additions to Blogroll

2008-02-02T11:27:00.000-08:00

I've added two interesting new blogs (both are China blogs) to my blogroll:-

Absurdity, Allegory and China

醉人囈語

Happy New Year!

2008-01-04T13:08:00.000-08:00

May I wish you all a very happy new year! I just wanted to remind readers that my blog is now located at Asia Sentinel's website under the Interactive Section (http://www.asiasentinel.com/).
The move took effect as of late October last year.

Here are links to my most recent blogposts at that site:-

Book Review: "We Deserve Better" by Hemlock

Happy Valley - An Extreme Makeover

A Gentrified Macau

I hope you like the design of my new blog!

Cheers,
Alice

CBRA's Review of "Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong"

2007-11-01T20:29:00.000-07:00

Canadian Book Review Annual featured “Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong” as Editor’s Choice: Scholarly for the months of September and October 2007. Canadian Book Review Annual is an annual publication that provides the most comprehensive collection of authoritative reviews of English-language trade, scholarly and reference books published in Canada each year. Website:http://home.interlog.com/~cbra/index.html

The full review is as follows:-

4037 Poon, Alice. Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong. Richmond: Alice Poon, 2005. 162p. biblio. index. $23.50. ISBN 0-9738760-0-X. CCIP. DDC 333.33'7'095125.

"Oligopoly pays." That’s the chief lesson emerging from Alice Poon’s excellent survey of Hong Kong’s real estate and infrastructure economies. Although Hong Kong is often characterized as one of the world’s freest economies, it is in fact controlled by a handful of wealthy individuals and companies who stifle—rather than encourage—competition.

Poon dissects the sinews of Hong Kong "big money" and isolates its key components, those being legislative and legal sway over land and competitive policies. Hong Kong’s biggest fortunes owe their growth and security to dominance over a wide spectrum of businesses ranging from transport, public utilities, supermarkets, and food distribution to, most importantly, land development. Huge amounts of real estate are developed by a handful of large companies who control all aspects of supply, construction, and property management. Indeed, the usual hallmarks of classically defined competitive markets are nearly absent; instead, Hong Kong’s market structure suffers from steep barriers to entry and government policies that serve to bolster the market positions of a half dozen huge conglomerates.

The situation of near-anarchy for Hong Kong’s corporate heavyweights may make for impressive annual reports but does little to relieve Hong Kong’s mounting social and economic tensions. Poon carefully details how government "of the rich, by the rich, for the rich" in Hong Kong has damaged civil norms and deprived its population of economic security and well-being. Not surprisingly, articulate protest groups have lodged forceful criticism of "business as usual" and gained widespread support, proving that discontent is deep-seated and justified.

Poon’s concise, well-argued analysis is one of the few available English-language sources on Hong Kong’s predicament. While Hong Kong’s once-vigorous and argumentative press has lost its teeth following the takeover, new outlets such as blogs have assumed huge importance as a barricade for free expression and democratic principles. With Shanghai rapidly eclipsing Hong Kong as the banking and finance powerhouse for China’s breakneck growth, there’s a chance that competition may in fact re-emerge and make for the kind of "popular" entrepreneurship long absent in Hong Kong.

Gary Watson

My Blog in Asia Sentinel's New Interactive Section

2007-10-22T10:42:00.000-07:00

This is the link to Asia Sentinel's new Interactive Section which contains a list of my latest blog posts:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=20&Itemid=153

This is the link to my special blog page which contains the most recent post:-

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=803&Itemid=158