![]() He is a writer, editor and occasional radio host based in Hong Kong. Karen can be followed on Twitter at Gordon has an MPhil from Oxford in International Relations and a BA from Harvard. 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. She is the author of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir (Random House), which was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, a. 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. Clifford and The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung is a deep dive into the things that make Hong Kong different, diverse and difficult. Book review of Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China’s Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere by Mark L. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, Karen Cheung (Random House, February 2021) ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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