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  2. Kowloon Walled City - Wikipedia

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    Kowloon Walled City (Chinese: 九龍寨城) was an extremely densely populated and largely lawless enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Built as an imperial Chinese military fort, the walled city became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in

  3. The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Wikipedia

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    The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Japanese: 街とその不確かな壁, Hepburn: Machi to Sono Futashika na Kabe) is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami that was released on April 13, 2023. [1] The release date for Philip Gabriel's English translation is set for November 19, 2024 in Britain [2] and United States. [3]

  4. Greg Girard - Wikipedia

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    Photographed between 1986 and 1992, Girard's Kowloon Walled City photographs form the basis for the books City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City and City of Darkness Revisited, a record of the final years of the infamous Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong: a largely self-governing enclave of more than 35,000 people living in 300 ...

  5. In new book, Murakami explores walled city and shadows - AOL

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    Haruki Murakami wrote a story of a walled city when he was fresh off his debut. There are many kinds of walls — between conscious and unconscious, real and unreal, and the physical walls that ...

  6. Kowloon Generic Romance - Wikipedia

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    Kowloon Generic Romance (Japanese: 九龍ジェネリックロマンス, Hepburn: Kūron Jenerikku Romansu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Jun Mayuzuki.

  7. Kowloon's Gate - Wikipedia

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    The Hong Kong Supreme Feng Shui Conference (香港最高風水会議) determined that the reappearance of the walled city was a sign of an imbalance of the Yin and Yang, and if the two parallel worlds are not separated once again, great calamity would occur. To set things straight, the order of Feng Shui would need to be re-instilled in the ...

  8. Chloe Gong - Wikipedia

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    The first book of the spinoff duology, Foul Lady Fortune, was released fall 2022. [9] [10] In November 2021, Gong announced her first adult fantasy trilogy, inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City. The first book of the trilogy, Immortal Longings, was released in summer 2023. [11]

  9. Jackie Pullinger - Wikipedia

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    [4]: 33 She found work as a primary school teacher in the Kowloon Walled City, which in the 1960s was not policed and consequently had become one of the world's largest opium producing centres, run by Chinese criminal Triad gangs. Later she established a youth centre that helped the drug addicts and street sleepers inside the walled city.