Why Some Hong Kong Squatter Villages Survived
The story of squatters is the story of Hong Kong itself...
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70 Years Ago, Shek Kip Mei Burned – And a New Hong Kong Was Born
How the Shek Kip Mei fire of 1953 was a turning point for colonial Hong Kong...
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part III: Squatter Factories
Hong Kong became an industrial powerhouse thanks in part to informal factories run out of shantytowns and residential flats....
When Hong Kong Was a City of Villages: Squatter Settlements and Their Legacy
In the 1960s, a quarter of people in Hong Kong lived in squatter villages. What happened to our own version of the favela?...
The Enigma of Hong Kong in the 1950s: Werner Bischof’s Photos at the F11 Photographic Museum
With ethereal images of junk boats next to street scenes from a time of mass migration, Werner Bischof offers a window into the Hong Kong of the 1950s. ...