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Book Review: Art In Hong Kong

Art In Hong Kong
By Enid Tsui
Published by Lund Humphries
London, 2025
In Art in Hong Kong (2025), Enid Tsui, a critic and the arts editor for the Hong Kong-based English-language South China Morning Post, aims to provide a clear-eyed analysis of how and why Hong Kong, as a Chinese special administrative region, has continued to thrive in the 21st century—not only as a vital mercantile center, but also as a key exchange point between China and the international art community. She highlights the city’s enduring openness while addressing the known redlines, political agendas, and stakes for all cultural practitioners. Throughout the book, she sidesteps pro-/anti-China perspectives and cuts through the “usual, simplistic doom-and-gloom or all-is-well narrative.”