Word: kowloon
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...ground (mostly by rail) and true to his raw, first impressions - masterfully bending the dullest of travel encounters into revelations - he has etched indelible snapshots of much of the globe. His 1973 Saint Jack evoked Singapore in the swinging days before its turn toward a more staid Yuppiedom; Kowloon Tong captured the 1997 Hong Kong handover through the petty business deals and shared secrets of Chinese and interlopers. In both Riding the Iron Rooster and Sailing Through China, he made strong claims as a China hand - though he now has as little good to say about the materialism...
...Chungking Mansions, researching a new novel and shooting video for short promotional spots. His book Nine Dragons, which debuted last month at No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list, follows hard-boiled detective Harry Bosch, in his 15th novel, from Los Angeles to Hong Kong's Kowloon district in search of his missing daughter. Months after his visit, while preparing for his book's launch, Connelly ran across a YouTube clip about Ashekian's disappearance - a case that bore an eerie similarity to his own fictional story. Connelly immediately went back to the film his videographer shot...
...fifth lower than they were in March 2008. But confidence in Hong Kong's luxury market, driven by surprisingly strong economic growth in China, is recovering quickly. Just last week a penthouse apartment located in a new tower built not far from the Cullinan in Hong Kong's Kowloon district sold for $3.16 million. That may not sound like much for an upscale address, but the apartment has just 590 sq. ft. of useable space - meaning the buyer paid $5,356 per sq. ft. of living area...
...five flagpoles that stand in front of the Star Ferry terminal at the tip of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong have long been a popular meeting place. It was at this familiar spot 20 years ago that democracy advocates sold commemorative items to raise money for the victims of the June 4 crackdown at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. I bought one: a four-inch plastic replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue that had been erected at the square. For a 9-year-old trying to make sense of the world, that keepsake was a concrete link...
...this context, it is not surprising to see one of Hong Kong's foremost designers, Douglas Young, presenting his private collection of locally made 20th century consumer objects as museum-worthy artifacts. Located in Kowloon, the G.O.D. Street Culture Museum - named after Young's lifestyle and fashion brand - is not only a repository of items that have inspired Young's consummately Hong Kong sense of aesthetics, but an indication of what the city's people will preserve when so many of the larger conservation battles have been lost. Great Victorian edifices have been torn down and entire districts razed...