The Hong Kong Book Fair 2016 continues the city’s longstanding tradition of hosting consumer-obsessed, discount-supermarket-style book fairs. As with previous years, it was mobbed with students towing suitcases to buy in bulk, 20%+ discounts all around, and bookstore-publishers cross-selling each other’s books (but promoting their own most prominently). The books themselves include both fiction and non-fiction, with a large selection of titles…
Oamul (卤猫/Lu Mao) is a 27-year-old illustrator based in Xiamen, China. He’s animated in person, quick to laugh and constantly bolting out of his chair to show me something he’s working on or offer me snacks.…