Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
Dung Kai-cheung and Anders Hansson & Bonnie S. McDougall (translators)
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“Dung Kai-cheung is very cerebral. And this particular book is about the study of history as a way of thinking, with a fictional spin on the history of some of Hong Kong’s most beloved places. It was written around 1997, the year when the sovereignty of Hong Kong was passed from the UK to China, and afterward, he said that he wanted to look back into history to try and see the future of Hong Kong. So even though the subject of the book is serious, there’s a certain playfulness in Dung’s fiction. He plays games with fiction masterfully, by writing the absurd in a serious way.” Read more...
Wong Yi, Novelist
