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The circumstances of Hong Kong’s liminality are unique, but its experience is shared by a whole postcolonial modernity. I think of Audre Lorde, writing in her cancer journals of 1984: “I feel the tragedy of being an oppressed hyphenated person in America, of having no land to be our primary teacher.” Solitude here also concerns a kind of apartheid in which a constant flood of migrants from mainland China are regarded as locusts arriving with empty suitcases, South Asian workers are abused with barely the right to reside, and Western expatriates influence large sectors of the economy without ever having to learn a word of Cantonese, so that the majority local population feels itself oppressed as a minority. The result is not solitude but segregation, and scarcity, and loneliness.                   

— Henry Wei Leung, “City Without Solitude,” The Offing

Read Henry Wei Leung’s essay “City Without Solitude” here: http://theoffingmag.com/essay/city-without-solitude/