Articles

China’s Amazing Highways and Bridges: A Powerpoint Presentation — Oei Hui Kiat

Voices from Underground — Jesse Wong

The End of Consensus Politics in China — John Minnich, STRATFOR Global Intelligence

Let’s not allow Hong Kong to come between us — Ambassador Liu Xiaoming (The Telegraph)

Who would have thought…? Sandhurst officers attend PLA academy (BBC News video)

Some of Today’s Scottish Secondary School Pupils are Learning Mandarin | 在今天的苏格兰,一些中学生学普通话,真的! — Alan Robertson

My Father: A Cavalry Soldier of the Great War 1914-1918 — Clifford H. “Jumbo” Partridge

Chinese Forgetting How to Write — BBC News, October 18, 2013

Old Chinese Proverb — Via Bill Guest, Keith Stevens, …

A Better Way to Learn Chinese? — Steven Ashley, BBC News, April 10, 2013

It’s official: CLS Cantonese Students are Smarter 🙂 — Medical Express (posted by David Ellis (C6))

70th Anniversary Commemoration of the Sinking of the Lisbon Maru — Brian Finch

Tempus Fugit — Issue #33; on the retirement from CLS of (the late) Mr. Tang Pong, MBE. (The Junk, March 1984)

Writing Chinese in a Digital World — Didi Kersten Tatlow in the New York Times

Speaking in Characters — a BBC article about the “talk-to-text” trend in China, May 31, 2012

40th Anniversary Reunion — Mick Roberts. Originally published in the RAEC journal The Torch c. 2007/8

The CLS “Diplomatic Corps” — Issue #32, Spring 2012

The Malaysia Rangers — James Rand. Issue #32, Spring 2012

The Lisbon Maru — A Poem. Issue #32, Spring 2012

A Disturbing Diplomatic Visit — Patrick Hyland. Issue #31, Autumn 2011

A Memorable Reunion — Brian Finch. Issue #31, Autumn 2011

Book Reviews — Alan Robertson. Issue #30, Spring 2011

The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru — Brian Finch. Issue #30, Spring 2011

Price isn’t everything, but such errors are farcical (SCMP) — Issue #30, Spring 2011

Mediterranean Sailing — Shaun Lewis. Issue #29, Autumn 2010

Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School — Alan Robertson. Issue #29, Autumn 2010

Richard “Bows” Arrowsmith writes… — Issue #29, Autumn 2010

The Oriental Cafe, Ladybank — Alan Robertson. Issue #29, Autumn 2010

That’s All, Folks! — David Syme. Issue #28, Spring 2010

Red Star, White Flowers — Alan Robertson. Issue #27, Autumn 2009

News from Brod Purdy in Lincolnshire May 2009 — Issue #27, Autumn 2009

Trouble in Shenzhen (un-attributed, undated) — Issue #26, Spring 2009

Report on a Visit to Yunnan Province — Kim Chan Kwok Kim. Issue #25, Autumn 2008

Self-Recommendation — Issue #20, Autumn 2005

Heroes Wanted — A Proclamation. Issue #20, Autumn 2005

Confucius on “Rest” (from the Lieh Tzu) — Issue #20, Autumn 2005

Outside — Issue #19, Spring 2005

Fjords, Snowy Mountains, Glaciers — Alaska! by James Wong. Issue #18, Autumn 2004

Releasing Prisoners — Issue #17, Spring 2004

The Unicorn — Issue #16, Autumn 2003

2002: A South Sea Odyssey — Mrs. Cheng Ya Lan (Mrs. Zhong). Autumn, 2003

The Genius of Wine — Issue #15, Spring 2003

众香之国 — 根西岛 — James Wong Kwok Wai. Issue #8, Autumn 1999

Virtually Real — David Ellis. Issue #7, Spring 1999

Where Have All the Characters Gone? — David Ellis. Issue #6, Autumn 1998

Lyemun Revisited — Alan Robertson. Issue #5, Spring 1998