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The Longest Ride in the City
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The Longest Ride in the City The Central–Mid-Levels escalator is eight hundred meters long. It carries seventy-eight thousand people a day. It bisects thirteen streets,…
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The Thirty-Seven Steps and the Wooden Clog
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A reflective essay on shoes, identity, marriage, and the selves we carry between Adams and Hong Kong.
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The Trophy Case: How Hong Kong’s Legal Awards Industry Misleads the Public
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The Trophy Case How Hong Kong’s legal awards industry misleads the public. It starts with an email. It always starts with an email. “Dear [Name],…
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The London Pipeline Is Dead. Hong Kong Built Something Better.
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The old London-to-Hong-Kong legal pipeline is fading. In its place: a faster, bilingual, China-facing market built around HKEX, the Greater Bay Area, and firms that…
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The Last King of a City That Won’t Stop Renovating
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THE LAST KING OF A CITY THAT WON’T STOP RENOVATING A city that paints over itself Not in the way developers claim to own Kowloon,…
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I Moved to Hong Kong and Stopped Saying Please. My Marriage Has Never Been Better.
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A sharp, funny look at why Hong Kong directness is not rudeness at all, and what living here teaches you about honesty, efficiency, and marriage.
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I Live in a City Where Healthcare Costs Fifty Dollars
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A sharp comparison between Hong Kong’s public healthcare system and America’s insurer-driven maze, sparked by one damning line in a murder case.
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Sleep When You’re Dead (Or After 1 AM, Whichever Comes First)
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There are cities that sleep. Paris dozes off after the last métro. London starts yawning around eleven, apologetically. Even New York, the city that supposedly…
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The Kid on the Train, the Jawbreaker, and the Sticker on the Window
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A reflective essay on trust, childhood freedom, and why Hong Kong can feel safer than the place you grew up.