Some come looking for money or romance or home. Like all good love songs, the stories in Hong Kong Noir are dark.Everyone in Hong Kong Noir is on the move. The history of Hong Kong, once a fishing village, encompasses piracy, the opium trade, prostitution, corruption, espionage and revolutionary plots grist for the 14 dark tales in Hong Kong Noir.
What better way to tie together the present and the past-the living and the dead-than through ghost stories?
Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial centre's gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city's ghosts and spirits.The stories touch on major points in Hong Kong modern history: the horrors of Japanese occupation, post-war poverty, the economic boom under the British, the city's return to Chinese sovereignty, and the tensions of the 2014 'umbrella movement' occupation of key thoroughfares by pro-democracy activists.
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