When Your City Vanishes

Since July 2020, the city of Hong Kong has gone through what can best be called a political and cultural reboot, erasing (or at least reconfiguring) its former hard drive. Two years on, It seems an appropriate moment to reflect on what the city of Hong Kong was and ponder what its future might bring. Here’s a free sampler of writing by Xu Xi 許素細, one of Hong Kong’s leading English language writers and a Signal 8 Press author. Two of the pieces in this sampler are from her forthcoming collection, Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations, pub date 01 November 2022. We hope you find this a thought provoking and stimulating read.