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Hong Kong, Montreal
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Cities, beer, stuff. Always too 心急. 🇭🇰🇨🇦Author of 'Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong'. Avatar by Colette Holstein.
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What Happened to Hong Kong’s Neon?

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By Christopher DeWolf Verified
| Roads and Kingdoms
Fewer than 400 neon signs remain of the tens of thousands that once illuminated the city. Can a new generation help bring them back? Hard Boiled, the classic 1992 John Woo movie, opens with a montage that couldn’t have been filmed anywhere but Hong Kong. As Chow Yun-fat languorously plays clarinet in a jazz club, the camera cuts to neon-drenched streets before arriving at a teahouse whose patrons are bathed in the warm glow of illuminated Chinese characters.
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Dwelling on Earth: Hong Kong in the History of How We Live

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By Christopher DeWolf Verified
| Zolima City Mag Verified
Where does Hong Kong fit into the global story of how we live? That’s not exactly the central question in Stefan Al’s new book Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home. But it is indeed one of the things that Al discusses in this concise but deeply researched exploration of housing, which brings archaeology, anthropology, architecture and social history into a remarkably compelling package.
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The Secret Lives of Hong Kong Villages

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By Christopher DeWolf Verified
| Zolima City Mag Verified
“I’ll take you to my village.” It’s exactly what you would expect to hear from Patrick Hase, one of the world’s leading experts on rural Hong Kong. Over the past 40 years, ever since he took early retirement from the Hong Kong government, he has been documenting the history and customs of villages and towns across the New Territories, most of which predate modern Hong Kong by hundreds of years.
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