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