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The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir

byKaren Cheung

The Impossible City brings Karen Cheung's attention to the hong kong memoir, treating the subject as a developing story rather than a settled conclusion. The argument in The Impossible City develops through biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects the hong kong memoir to larger questions in biography & autobiography and history, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences. Rather than reducing its subject to a single lesson, The Impossible City preserves its contradictions and shows why they remain important.

Publisher

Random House

Publication date

Feb 08, 2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

336

ISBN

9780593241431