Boxing For Survival in a Chinese Fight Club

By Robert Foyle Hunwick on April 3, 2017

“I was supposed to be fighting some IT guy,” Bo Junhui groaned afterward. Instead, the 18-year-old student was up against someone a year older, ten pounds heavier, and a lot hungrier. Xia Tian has never worked behind a desk; he’d spent the last few years as a restless migrant, living on his wits. He didn’t know about computing, only that he wanted to put Bo “on the mat as fast” as possible. And Bo, better educated and properly trained, barely knew what hit him.

Helen Siu

on April 3, 2017

Helen F. Siu is a Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. She has conducted decades of fieldwork in South China, exploring the cultural nexus of power, the nature of the socialist state, and the refashioning of identities. Lately, she has been exploring the rural-urban divide in China, cross-border dynamics in Hong Kong, inter-Asian connections, and China-Africa encounters. Siu is the founding Director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and she serves in numerous research committees in Asia, the United States, and Europe. She received a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

The Monster Fight Club

By YiChen on April 3, 2017

“I was supposed to be fighting some IT guy,” Bo Junhui groaned afterward. Instead, the 18-year-old student was up against someone a year older, ten pounds heavier, and a lot hungrier. Xia Tian has never worked behind a desk; he’d spent the last few years as a restless migrant, living on his wits. He didn’t know about computing, only that he wanted to put Bo “on the mat as fast” as possible. And Bo, better educated and properly trained, barely knew what hit him.

Karen Cheung

on April 3, 2017

Karen Cheung is a freelance journalist and law student in Hong Kong. She was formerly a Senior Reporter at Hong Kong Free Press, covering local politics, human rights, and arts and culture. She also served as a consultant for PEN America’s 2016 report on the Causeway Bay bookstore disappearances.