During the terrifying years of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, a perpetual nightmare was the threat of being denounced for some real or imagined offence, with the denunciation taken up by the authorities or the mobs rampaging throughout the country. It had been thought that this abysmal practise had disappeared or at the very […]
Author Archives: Stephen Vines
Stephen Vines is a Hong Kong-based journalist, writer and broadcaster and runs companies in the food sector. He was the founding editor of 'Eastern Express' and founding publisher of 'Spike'. In London he was an editor at The Observer and in Asia has worked for international publications including, the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, BBC, Asia Times and The Independent. Vines is the author of several books, including: Hong Kong: China’s New Colony, The Years of Living Dangerously - Asia from Crisis to the New Millennium and Market Panic and most recently, Food Gurus. He hosts a weekly television current affairs programme: The Pulse. Vines’ latest book, Defying the Dragon – Hong Kong and the world’s largest dictatorship, will be published in 2021 by Hurst Publishers, London
