The moon has been a predominant image in different cultures. More than one thousand two hundred years ago, Li Po imagined the moon and his shadow as his drinking companions. For John Keats, the moon is a symbol of perfection and transcendence. In one of the poems by Emily Dickinson, “The Moon was but a…
What does the moon see when it looks upon Hong Kong? This question guided us as we gathered the works for The Kaleidoscope Chronicle’s second issue. The answers arrived in many forms: Shakespeare’s inconstant moon refracted through student essays, original poems that speak across languages and centuries, short stories where celestial light falls on the…
Professor Kwok-kan Tam, Chair Professor,
School of Humanities and Social Science