![]() ![]() Locals here still nursed colonial hangovers and were nice to them. They spent weekends hiking up the Dragon's Back or cannonballing into water from junk boats, and thought the city was so beautiful. Their paradise is Lan Kwai Fong, a bar-infested slope of drunk men and Jell-O shots. I learned to see my hometown through their eyes, to become a tourist in my own city. In university, before I found the universe I eventually wanted to belong to, I lived for a while in the "cosmopolitan city" version of Hong Kong, populated mostly by exchange students, international school graduates, and expats who moved to Asia to teach English or find themselves. In her memoir, "The Impossible City" (Random House), journalist and author Karen Cheung writes of her personal challenges happening simultaneously with the turmoil arising from the wrenching handover of Hong Kong to the power center in Beijing. ![]()
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