Annotation

Hong Kong Folk Weekly described itself as a ‘Comprehensive weekly about arts and literature, new knowledge, entertainment and amusement’. For literature, it published fiction. For new knowledge, it carried articles introducing the latest fashions and about geography and cultures from around the world. Its entertainment coverage centred on Hollywood films and film stars. For amusement, it published humourous essays and Chuzi’s Taipan Chow comic strip.

Two things stand out about this magazine. First, its title, and that previously no periodical had placed so much emphasis on Hong Kong people as a category in their own right. Second, according to a notice in Issue 3, the magazine ‘had permission to be transported to and sold in Taiwan’. This was significant because few Hong Kong magazines were allowed into Taiwan at the time of Hong Kong Folk Weekly’s existence due to KMT government restrictions on imported newspapers, periodicals and books.