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South China Morning Post
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Karen Mok's rise to Mandopop queen, Hong Kong second-hand clothes: 7 Lifestyle highlights
We have selected seven Lifestyle and Culture stories from the past seven days that resonated with our readers. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing Karen Mok Man-wai is one of Hong Kong's more internationally acclaimed stars. However, it is in the nearby Mandarin-speaking places that she has enjoyed greater success. Unlike Chinatowns in other parts of the world, Japan's largest Chinatown is today less of a Chinese enclave and more of a tourist attraction for locals. Mountaineer Petra Thaller, who survived breast cancer, leaned on exercise to thrive in recovery and set up an NGO to help others do the same.
South China Morning Post
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
How Hong Kong singer-actress Karen Mok went from Stephen Chow's co-star to Mandopop queen
This is the 54th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. Advertisement Karen Mok Man-wai is one of Hong Kong's more internationally acclaimed stars. However, it is in the nearby Mandarin-speaking places that she has enjoyed greater success. Despite growing up in a city where the majority speak Cantonese, she has released 13 Mandarin albums – the most of any woman singer who debuted in Hong Kong – and has spent the better part of the past decade touring in mainland China. Mok was born in Hong Kong as Karen Joy Morris. She is of Chinese, Welsh, German and Persian descent, and comes from an academic family. Mok at an interview with the Post in 1996. Photo: Jon Hargest Her grandfather was one of the first principals at the prestigious King's College school for boys in Sai Ying Pun. Mok herself studied at another distinguished establishment, the Diocesan Girls' School, where she was active in drama groups and school plays. Advertisement In the 1985/86 school year, at about age 16, Mok was one of 10 girls who won the first Hong Kong Outstanding Students Award, given to secondary school students across the city for academic, extracurricular and community-service achievements.
