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City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City
City of Darkness Life in Kowloon Walled City
Author: Ian Lambot (Editor), Greg Girard (Illustrator)
Girard and Lambot spent four years exploring the notorious Walled City of Kowloon (Hong Kong), before it's final clearance in 1992. With over 320 photographs, 32 extended interviews, and essays on the City's history and character, this reprint is not only an informative glimpse of a now vanished landmark but a sensitive and penetrating p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781873200131
ISBN-10: 1873200137
Publication Date: 10/1/1999
Pages: 216
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Publisher: Watermark
Book Type: Paperback
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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.
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