Nigel Collett - Author and Biographer
Journalism
World War I Chinese Laborers Thanked, 3 September 2018
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Being gay in 80s HK, 'What's the Buzz?', 9 March 2018
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Idea of ‘reverse discrimination’ by LGBT doesn’t hold water, 1 August 2017
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The arguments in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, 1 JUne 2017
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Lying in the Name of the Lord, 15 May 2014
Politics Seeking Any Port for an Artificial Storm, 21 February 2014
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We Must Do More to Protect our Domestic Helpers, 23 January 2014
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Barrack Break-in Attempt Was Foolish in the Extreme, 14 January 2014
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On the pace of change in Hong Kong, 20 December 2013
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On Dr York Chow, 25 November 2013
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Sexual Minorities Find a Friend, 15 November 2013
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Hong Kong Business Steps Out of the Closet, 29 October 2013
Hong Kong's Permanent Underclass, 18 October 2013
Has Government Hamstrung Its New Anti-Discrimination Body?, 10 October 2013
Sexual Minority Rights in Hong Kong Obstructed by Christian Churches, 3 October 2013
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Gay Games 2022 Will Be a Real Test for Hong Kong, 8 November 2017
Review of Shanghai Grand, 29 August 2016​
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Review of Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India” by Shashi Tharoor, 4 June 2017
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Review of Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court by Audrey Truschke, 10 May 2016
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Review of Incarnations: India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani, 19 April 2016
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Review of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand, 24 March 2015
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Review of The Destruction of Hyderabad by AG Noorani, 15 February 2015
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Review of Farzana: The Woman Who Saved an Empire by Julia Keay, 8 December 2014
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Review of Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician by Zafar Anjum, 21 November 2014
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Review of Ramachandra Guha's Gandhi Before India, 18 May 2014
Review of Damon Galgut's novel Arctic Summer, based on the life of E.M. Forster, 2 April 2014
Review of Ken Bridgewater's novel, Open Verdict, 2014
Review of Susheila Nats's Asian Britain, 13 January 2014
Review of Jason Wordie's Macao, 9 December 2013
Review of When the Tiger Fought the Thistle, 4 December 2013
Review of The Siege, 24 November 2013
Review of The History of Bhutan, 17 June 2013
Review of Hobson-Jobson, 23 May 2013
Review of The Man before the Mahatma: M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law, 1 December 2012
Review of India: A Sacred Geography, 11 October 2012
'A Muse Abused: The Politicising of the Amritsar Massacre', 17 July 2012
Review of Ashoka, 13 April 2012
Review of Sonia Gandhi, 14 February 2012
'The Veracity of Edmund Backhouse', 3 August 2011
Review of Great Soul, 29 May 2011
Review of India: A Portrait, 9 May 2011
Review of Churchill's Secret War, 15 December 2010
Review of Xu Xi's Habit of a Foreign Sky, 13 November 2010
Review of Fatima Bhutto's Songs of Blood and Sword, 18 July 2010
Review of Stephen Simmon's The Planter's Wife, 28 May 2010
Review of Burying the Bones, 11 May 2010
Review of Andre Aciman's Eight White Nights, 23 April 2010
Review of Body2body, A Gay Malaysian Anthology, 2 February 2010
Review of William Dalrymple's Nine Lives 24 January 2010
Review of Archibald Wavell, 15 April 2009
Review of Gandhi and Churchill, 7 August 2008
Review of Empires of the Indus, 22 July 2008
Review of Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, 9 July 2008
Review of Gender, Sexuality and Body Politics in Modern Asia, 9 May 2008
Review of Vishnu's Crowded Temple, 30 December 2007
Review of Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name, 30 November 2007
Review of Indian Summer, 25 November 2007
Review of Ramachandra Guha's India after Gandhi, 22 August 2007
Review of Lynn O'Donnell's High Tea in Mosul, 15 May 2007
Review of Forgotten Wars, 12 April 2007
Review of William Dalrymple's The Last Moghul, 28 January 2007
Review of The High Road to China, 17 December 2006
Review of Pankaj Mishra's Temptations of the West, 20 September 2006
Review of David Gilmour's The Ruling Caste, 10 September 2006
Review of Victoria's Wars, 20 August 2006
Review of Falling Blossom, 1 May 2006
Review of Untouchables, 8 January 2006
Review of Thug, 21 December 2005
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Tough Barriers Still Exist for Transgender People to Marry in Hong Kong: 9 April 2014
Hong Kong's Bill on Transgender Marriage is Inhumane, 11 March 2014
Two approaches to End Discrimination against LGBT, 22 December 2013
Hong Kong's Business Community Steps out of the Closet, 29 October 2013
Has the Hong Kong Government Hamstrung Its New Anti-Discrimination Body, 11 October 2013
Sexual Minority Rights in Hong Kong Obstructed by Christian Churches, 4 October 2013
Norm Yip's new magazine, 17 June 2013
Review of The Gurkha's Daughter, 8 February 2013
On Top of the World: Arthur Tam, 31 January 2013
Suddenly Single, 4 September 2012
Marshall Moore's story collection Infernal Republic, 29 August 2012
Denise Tang's new study of lesbian spaces in Hong Kong, 15 June 2012
A Stranger's Child, 2 April 2012
Queer Politics in Taiwan, 7 October 2011
Queer Bangkok, 28 September, 2011
David Prices's novel Chinese Walls, 18 August 2011
The Canker of Discrimination inside Hong Kong's Government, 28 July 2011
Scud's film Love Actually Sucks, 25 July 2011
Falling into the Lesbi World, 14 July 2011
Mr Diva's Master Class, 4 May 2011
Bangkok Freefall, 15 February 2011
Digest of 2010's Later Articles
The Chi Hung Foundation Gala, 3 March 2010
A Single Man, 22 February 2010
Sunil Pant: Nepal's Rainbow Revolutionary, 2 December 2009
The Gay We Were, 11 November 2009
Out of China: Zhou Dan, 21 October 2009
Hong Kong's Fruits in Suits is 5! , 19 October 2009
Sound and Light: Henry Lam and Samuel Wong, 8 October 2009
Ahoy There Sailors! Sail with Floatilla, Hong Kong's Best Kept Secret, 2 October 2009
The Search is On: Mr Gay Hong Kong, 8 September 2009
Behind the Cameras: Hong Kong's GDot TV, 14 July 2009
Review of Philippine Gay Culture, 9 July 2009
From Personal Trauma to Activism: Kenneth Cheung, 19 June 2009
Review of Obsession, 28 May 2009
Out and Loud: Brian Leung, 25 May 2009
A Life in Progress and on View: Hong Kong Playwright Pak Li, 27 April 2009
Assaults by Hong Kong religious right on HIV NGOs and LGBT Groups, 26 March 2009
700 March in Hong Kong to protect Civil Rights from Christian Right, 16 February 2009
Here Come the Brides, 22 January 2009
Review of Undercurrent: Queer Cullture and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 13 January 2009
What the Recent Polls Mean for Hong Kong's LGBT Community, 17 September 2008
Back in Business: Hong Kong's LGBT Cooerdinating Body, 25 June 2008
Towards Inclusion in Hong Kong, 30 May 2008
What Lies Behind Siu Cho's Struggle in RTHK Case, 4 January 2008
The Epidemic Worsens, 26 June 2007
Gmagazine
August 2006 - The Ex-gay Industry - Anything but Straight
September 2006 - Sticks and Stones?
October 2006 - Gay Marriage
November 2006 - In the Name of the Father
December 2006 - The G Quotient
Seaways
The Magazine of the Nautical Institute
January 2007 - Firearms abd Piracy: The Case for a Change of Practice
September 2006 - Counter-pirecy Devices: Their Manning and Protection
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The Journal
The Journal of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles Association
Garrisoning Hong Kong at the End of an Era - No. 94, 2014, pp. 107-110.
The Journal of Historical Biography
Review of Life Writing: Autobiography, Biography and Travel Writing in Contemporary Literature. Proceedings of a Symposium Entitled: "The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature", edited by Koray Melikoglu in the Journal for Historical Biography 3, Spring 2008.
Live On: the Overseas Newsletter of the Royal British Legion
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Our 'Thank You' to The Chinese Who Laboured Behind the LInes in the 1st World War, 3 December 2018, pages 16-17
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Hong Kong Literary Festival
2017
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Xu Xi at the Fringe Club
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2014
Philip Hensher at the Fringe Club
Myself on Firelight of a Different Colour at the Key Club
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2013
Pride Lit, at the Fringe, with:
Evan Fallenberg, Andrew Lam, Marshall Moore and Nicholas Wong
The Dharma Expedient, at the Hong Kong Yacht Club, with:
Neville Sarony
2012
Yam Sing at Gitone, Sai Wan Ho, with:
Simon Wu
Writer in the Opium Den, at Mariners' Rest, Hullett House, with:
Jeet Thayil and Kunal Basu
2010
Map of the Invisible World, at Classified, Wan Chai, with:
Tash Aw
2009
A Case of Exploding Mangoes, at the Fringe Theatre, with:
Mohammed Hanif
China Cuckoo, at the Fringe Theatre, with:
Mark Kitto
The Inheritors, at the China Club, with:
Neel Chowdhury
2008
Lunch at M at the Fringe, with:
Patrick Gale and Marina Lewycka
Death of a Monk, at the Fringe Theatre, with:
Alon Hilu
Labels: Gay Literature, at the Fringe Studio, with:
Alan Hilu, Peter Moss and Ng Yi-Sheng
Gay Writing in Hong Kong, at the Fringe Studio, with:
Victor Chau, Reggie Ho, Peter Moss, Ng Yi-Sheng and Nicholas Wong
2007
The Craft of Writing: Getting Started in Hong Kong at the Fringe Club, with:
Lynne O'Donnell and Peter Moss
War Stories, at the Crown Wine Cellars, with:
Jason Wordie, Tony Banham and Peter Neville
2006
When Truth is Stranger than Fiction, at the Fringe Theatre, with:
Mike Dash and Tom Standage
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