Memories of my father and growing up in Hong Kong in the 1970s
I spent a good chunk of my childhood reading trashy spy novels in the reading room of Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents Club, oblivious to the real spies who may… or may not… have been drinking […]
Arthur Hacker single-handedly brought civic pride to a Hong Kong generation. It’s impossible to overstate the impact of his creation Lap Sap Chung (literally Litter Worm) on the city in the 1970s. Hong Kong, it […]
When official sources fail, good journalists shine. One of the best was the BBC’s Anthony Lawrence, who died in Hong Kong in September 2013 at the venerable age of 101. One of his greatest stories is an example […]
I don’t know much about golf, but when Adam Scott won the US Masters in 2013 I did know that he would have the honour of choosing the menu for the following year’s Champions Dinner. A cultural […]
When the Spackman family shipped up in Hong Kong, February 1967, we arrived at a turbulent time in the little colony’s history. The Cultural Revolution in China was in full swing and by May had […]
Once upon a time the general public was largely shielded from the wilder shores of the nuttiness which affects each of us in its own degree. Those who frolic in the deeper end have always […]
Francis James arrived in Hong Kong from Sydney in an ambulance one Friday night, with a briefcase full of greenbacks and a big jar of honey. He was on his way to Moscow to drink […]
Back in 1975 Hunter S. Thompson took in an historic game of cricket at the old Hong Kong Cricket Club and lost ten bucks to my father Jack Spackman. I was 12 years old when […]
While some journalists defend the indefensible, others are out there reporting on it and too often losing their lives in the process.
Copyright: Maria Spackman
