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117/ The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung

The Fire These Times

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Is Hong Kong a British Holly?

"I was a four year old child. And because of how young I was, you know, when I was writing about it, a lot of the memories are really some of my earliest memories," she says. "And so 1997 was to hand over Hong Kong from being a British holly at the time to being part of China again." She adds that her predominant memory is just how quickly afterwards his father secured passports for us.

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