A Vanishing Hong Kong
The latest story collection from the Hong Kong Writers Circle imagines dystopian futures.
by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Jul 12, 2017
4 minutes
L. P. Hartley once wrote, ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” If so, the future too is foreign. For politically charged places like Hong Kong, this is not merely an idle literary or philosophical inquiry. Its inhabitants are no strangers to constantly contemplating their past and future. The city—a special administrative region—is currently trapped between the history of a British colonial past and the looming future of integration into Greater
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