A 36-year-old Massachusetts man who hid gun parts in packages sent to Hong Kong was sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act. Lionel Chan of Brighton and a second man, Muhammad Mohd Radzi, 27, of Brooklyn, were both sentenced in Boston federal court on Friday. The two Malaysian nationals were caught sending gun parts to Hong Kong during a federal .
Kerry Ann Lee looks at the enduring appeal of Chinese typeface and letterpress design in the digital age.
In 1952, a slow boat from Hong Kong arrived in New Zealand carrying one metric tonne of lead type. This would be used by the Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese Commercial Growers Incorporated to print The NZ Chinese Growers Monthly Journal (僑農月刊) until 1972. Stories about the Chinese Growers and their journal have circulated through families for decades, and been made more accessible thanks to scholarship by Wai-te-ata Press, landmark books by Ruth Lam, Lily Lee and Nigel Murphy, and an essay by Emma Ng. A taonga that lives up to its namesake, the Growers Journal empowered the post-war Cantonese Chinese community to grow and organise in Aotearoa. As this country’s only surviving Chinese language printing typeface collection, it also stands as a glorious example of grassroots community publishing and letterpress design.