Dark City

The legendary "no man's land" of Kowloon Walled City is a legend and a mystery...
For nearly fifty years, the peculiar community of Kowloon Walled City was a dark world in the heart of Hong Kong. With no laws, no regard for basic services, no planning regulations, and no building standards, the Walled City not only survived but thrived. But how could such a place exist in a modern city, with no one in control of it, regardless of the British, Chinese, and Hong Kong governments? Who would live there, and why?
"Dark City: Days and Nights in Kowloon Walled City" includes not only weighty historical chapters but also fascinating photographs, drawings, maps, and oral histories from residents of the Walled City. It meticulously explores the Walled City's rapid growth from 1945 to 1990, while also examining its darker past. This book also debunks the myths surrounding the Walled City, which often evoke a sense of strangeness and mystery.
Kowloon Walled City is a lost place. At its peak, it was home to over 35,000 people and remains the most densely populated community known to the world. More than two decades after its demolition, "Dark City: Days and Nights in Kowloon Walled City" documents the walled city's golden age and demise, allowing readers to rethink and understand the space of Kowloon Walled City and the extraordinary community that lived there, leaving them with a unique mark of the walled city, and picking up the walled city's decline and prosperity.

2015-08-20

中華書局、圓桌精英

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