Amidst the villages and valleys of Hong Kong, tiny pockets of ancient forest lie scattered across the landscape. These forgotten forests absorb carbon from the air, give shelter to rare plants and ...

Initially, that essay on [different maps of Hong Kong that begins the book] was like an idea I had about how spaces disappear or morph from tourism to gentrification to protests.

Hong Kong — Hong Kong exists, as writer Han Suyin put it in the 1950s, “on borrowed time in a borrowed place.” Throughout its history, the city has been a bargaining chip in negotiations ...