Although she writes about various protest movements going back to 2003, also a year that was plagued by the deaths of Hong Kong icons Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui, she also, by merging memoir and observation. Cheung will speak about what it means to. 2022 by Karen Cheung (Author) 110 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £23.68 1 Used from £22.40 3 New from £22. He can be found on Twitter more about your ad choices. 'The Impossible City is a welcome counterpart to narratives that portray Hong Kong as either exotic or, more recently, as dystopian. Writer, editor, and journalist Karen Cheung gives a reading from her book The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir Hardcover 15 Feb. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. Karen can be followed on Twitter can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Impossible City. She was formerly a reporter at Hong Kong Free Press and was co–founding editor of Still / Loud, an indie magazine about culture and music in Hong Kong. Her essays, cultural criticism, and reported features have appeared on This American Life and in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and other publications. Karen Cheung () is a writer and journalist from Hong Kong.

Cheung never claims to speak for all Hong Kongers, instead writing with clear-eyed yet affective specificity on what shaped her: her grandmother's love, underground gigs in warehouses, coming into her political agency as a citizen and. In this interview, Karen and I talk about Hong Kong-the home city for both of us-and what it means to grow up in such a dense, unsure and misunderstood place. The Impossible City is an unflinching, deeply felt memoir from a writer making sense of a city on the brink. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir (Random House: 2022) by Karen Cheung is a deep dive into the things that make Hong Kong different, diverse and difficult.

Too often, the city has had to struggle with shorthand used by those writing about the city from afar-for audiences with little understanding of what the place is actually like. Hong Kong is almost impossible to explain to those not from the city.

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