1. Lin Li
(October 2018/Contributors)

Lin Li is a full-time writer and educator based in Belgium, Cambridge and Singapore. She graduated from Queens' College at Cambridge University with a PhD in English in 2017 and currently writes m

2. Can the Food of Home be Recreated Elsewhere?
(October 2018/Photography)

Art by Pan Huiting, text by Lin Li   Satay, oil on canvas with satay sticks, 2017, 18x25.5cm, 7.5x7.5cm   It is very hard to create satay away from home. When I arrived in Cambridge

3. At the Gate of Heavenly Peace, 1989
(December 2017/Poetry)

by Shirley Geok-lin Lim How many? Too many to count. How many? Too many to count. They ascend from the pit, Neither flying nor rising, Neither angels nor demons, Souls lost, whom God must love.

4. Shirley Geok-lin Lim
(December 2017/Contributors)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Crossing the Peninsula received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Awarded the Multiethnic Literatures of the United States Lifetime Achievement Award and University of Califor

5. The Borrowed Children
(September 2016/Umbrella)

by Kate Rogers   After "The Blood of the Children" by Shirley Geok-lin Lim   My grief was asleep until the students camped out on the highway that crossed the city, sway

6. Living in the Moments: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Ars Poetica for the Day and Do You Live In?
(June 2016/Reviews)

by Michael Tsang   Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Do You Live In?, Ethos Boos, 2015. 105 pgs. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Ars Poetica for the Day, Ethos Books, 2015. 105 pgs.   The titles of Shirle

7. A Hong Kong Poetic Modernity: Eight Hong Kong Poets
(March 2016/Reviews)

...Hong Kong, was a key promoter and teacher of literature, a mantel which has been taken up by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Tammy Ho, Timothy Kaiser and Eddie Tay; David McKirdy and Jennifer Wong have both p...

8. Shirley Geok-lin Lim
(September 2014/Contributors)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim is the author of Crossing the Peninsula (Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner and six other volumes of poetry, three collections of short stories, two novels, a children’s novel

9. Hong Kong in Black Today
(September 2014/Poetry)

by Shirley Geok-lin Lim The eye reverts this morning To black: total curtain call? Funereal grief? Skies tumbling Thunder and bolts that blind And light the cleared center? Drop-dead fatigue b

10. Valiant Beauty
(September 2014/Editorial)

...edience love, And the dungeon doors open for you And your questions to walk through. —Shirley Geok-lin Lim Hong Kong students continue to put 'civil' in 'civil disobedience'. &...

11. Rising River
(June 2013/Fiction)

... one year from Chongqing. There is an embarrassed silence because it is childish, grown-ups getting maudlin like this. And then perhaps Madam Yuen will say, "Do you remember when Chu's so...

12. Pursuing China
(September 2012/Reviews)

...t he and his family "listened to FDR like he was our father, Churchill like an older brother, and Stalin like an uncle." Later, he describes how a weekly pick-up hockey game in Beijing betwe...

13. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(Front Page/Welcome)

...t), Sebastian Mary Tay, Alvin Ong, Ng Joon Kiat, Ho Kin Yunn, Jon Gresham, Chee Wei Teck, Pan Huiting and Lin Li BOOK REVIEWS: Michael Tsang, Joshua Ip, Mandy Chi Man Lo, Richard Angus Whitehead, Ng ...

14. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(September 2014/Front page)

... following writers/artists have generously allowed us to showcase their work:   Poetry: Shirley Geok-lin Lim, B.B.P. Hosmillo, Joseph Han, Daryl Yam, Stephanie Han, Shefali Tripathi Mehta, Yassen...

15. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(December 2017/Front page)

...s/artists have generously allowed us to showcase their work: POETRY: Henry Wei Leung​, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Kit Fan, Louise Ho​, Simon Patton​, Nicholas Wong, Susan Lavender, Eddie Tay​, ...

16. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(May 2008/Front Page)

...,  Ashok Gupta, viki holmes, Yibing Huang, Sushma Joshi, Michael Judd, Larry Lefkowitz, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Clint Lorimore, Marina Ma, Jonathan Mendelsohn, Maurice Oliver, Lawrence Pun, Anindit...

17. The Mourning Months
(May 2008/Poetry)

by Shirley Geok-lin Lim Spring comes in March in triplicate hues, Pink purple lilac, the color of gray Women's scarves, variable shades of magnolia Afloat on branches or petals loose On grass. I

18. Shirley Geok-lin Lim
(May 2008/Contributors)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim (b.1944) is one of Hong Kong's most-published writers. Her first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula, published by Heinemann Press in 1980, won the Commonwealth Poetry