Gone But Not Forgotten

The Kowloon Walled City may have been razed but it lives on in these films, video games, books and even cocktails it has inspired

40 SQUARE FEET This heady mix of Campari, dark rum, vermouth, plum, bitter chocolate and ambergris is named for the average living space each resident had in the Walled City, where whole families would often live in a single room. It’s one of the signature drinks at DarkSide, the moody cocktail bar at Rosewood Hong Kong. RETAINERS OF ANARCHY BY HOWIE TSUI In 2017, Hong Kong-born, Vancouver-based artist Howie Tsui unveiled Retainers of Anarchy, an animation set in the Kowloon Walled City. The work is both physically and conceptually sprawling. Designed to be projected onto a 25-metre-long screen, it explores everything from the mundanity of daily life inside the Walled City to ghost stories and wuxia martial arts legends. The work debuted at the Vancouver Art Gallery and has since been shown at…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2019

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