Muse (Hong Kong magazine)

[2] Modeling itself after The New Yorker, Muse was edited by a local cinema and cultural critic, Perry Lam, and featured contributions from some of the region's foremost writers.

[6] The magazine prided itself on its unique brand of bilingualism, a feature it believed to reflect the linguistic dualism and political complexities of postcolonial Hong Kong.

Muse published the articles and columns of distinguished writers like Lung Ying-tai (龍應台), Xu Xi (許素細), and Ping Lu (平路).

A journalist of international stature, who has an established reputation for writing critically about arts and culture, would be invited to spend a term in residence at HKU's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

[11] Muse also sponsored HKU's "Distinguished Lecture Series in the Humanities",[12] which was held from September to December 2009 by Leo Lee Ou-fan, the magazine's book critic.

The magazine solicited public nominations for what they considered to be 'next big things' in the local arts scene: the people, concepts, ideas, projects and events which were to make the greatest positive cultural impact.

A review by Louis Lee in the South China Morning Post described Musings as: “engagingly written …offers not only a self-proclaimed Chinese cosmopolitan’s view on contemporary local and world literature, but also insights into the cultural and literary scene …of interest to readers worldwide who want to understand Hong Kong culture.”[15] The book was also reviewed in major Chinese-language media including 亞洲週刊.

A collection of short stories from her earlier Chinese books as well as previously unpublished works, Snow and Shadow was translated by Nicky Harman.

Tse's book was the first of a series of translated works by Hong Kong writers published by Muse, which includes Hon Lai-chu and Dung Kai-cheung.

Particularly notable is Chong's play, Murder in San Jose, because it won the Best Script Award from the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies and because the English translation is adapted by David Henry Hwang, the award-winning US playwright.