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Karen Cheung’s The Impossible City , a Commemoration of Hong Kong in Post-time

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Writing a memoir for any city, let alone an ‘impossible’ one, should be a self-defeating feat. Hong Kong was already an impossible city in Evan Chan’s To Liv[e], a 1991 epistolary film about ‘the p...

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a893d845edafe343d92d056 https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2024.2494399

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