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

The Fire These Times

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Hong Kong

The most, I think jarring thing about Hong Kong is actually just how peaceful looks a lot of the times on the outside. And so it becomes a state where you just really are waking up and being like, okay, that's gonna happen next week. The way that capitalism coupled with the new and more serious crackdowns has sort of interacted with each other. But at the same time, it more or less looks like the place that grew up great.

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