Q&A The big question for me was: what happens if in 10 years none of this, none of the memories that I hold dear, or the ways that so define the geography of this place for me, exists anymore? ENUMERATE “Maybe, if there were more of us in the city insisting on just the small things in life, and we had a space to exist, he wouldn’t have to die.”
Q&A with Karen Cheung, author of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
Cities Without Cafes
Karen Cheung
Karen Cheung is a journalist and writer from Hong Kong. She is currently a senior reporter at Hong Kong Free Press. She is also the Hong Kong desk editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a co-founding editor of Still / Loud. Her poetry has been published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and she has written for for Al Jazeera, the LARB China Channel, openDemocracy and Hong Kong Review of Books, amongst others. In 2016, she was named one of The Coffeelicious' favourite women writers. She is a BA (Literary Studies) and LLB graduate from the University of Hong Kong.