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BOOK REVIEW: Fortune’s Bazaar (The Making of Hong Kong)
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BOOK REVIEW: Fortune’s Bazaar (The Making of Hong Kong)

By Vaudine England. Published 2023 in the United States by Scribner, by Corsair in the United Kingdom. UK edition 360 pages with 16 b/w plates

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It is no coincidence that this book has been published within days of the Hong Kong government reportedly about to make it illegal to sing or quote or recite the words and/or music of a Cantonese song, translated into English as Glory to Hong Kong, written during the 2019 protests.

That song was a product of the upsurge in youthful localism that surged a…

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