Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the
West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee
offers an insider s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and
culture that make his densely packed home city so different from
its generic neighbors.
The search for an indigenous Hong Kong takes Lee to the wet
markets and corner bookshops of congested Mong Kok, remote fishing
villages and mountainside temples, teahouses and noodle stalls,
Cantonese opera and Cantopop. But he also finds the real Hong Kong
in a maze of interconnected shopping malls, a jungle of high-rise
residential towers, and the neon glow of Chinese-owned skyscrapers
in the Central Business District, where land development, global
trade, capital accumulation, consumerism, and free-market
competition trump every value except family.
Lee illuminates the relationship between Hong Kong s geography
and its colonial experience, revisiting colonial life on the
secluded Peak, in the opium-filled godowns along the harborfront,
and in crowded, plague-infested tenements. He examines, with a
critic s eye, the Hong Kong story in film and fiction: romance in
the bars and brothels of Wan Chai, crime in the walled city of
Kowloon, ennui on the eve of the 1997 handover.
Whether viewed from Tsing Yi Bridge or the deck of the Star
Ferry, from Victoria Peak or Lion Rock, Hong Kong sparkles here in
all its multifaceted complexity, a city forever between worlds.
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