Christin R. (raksha38) reviewed City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City on + 203 more book reviews
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SO GOOD! Kowloon Walled City was a 6 and a half acre area in Hong Kong where about 35,000 people lived. The UK and China agreed to relocate the people and tear it down in the 90s when the UK was preparing to return control of Hong Kong to China. When the plan for this was announced in the late 80s, Girard and Lambot went in to take some amazing photographs and interview residents about their lives there. It's really amazing. It's really interesting to see the wide variety of people who live there and hear about the relatively normal lives they led, in spite of the reputation KWC had for being, well, a "city of darkness." It was a pretty amazing place and this book is fascinating.
