Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City: what life was like inside the City of Darkness
Old Hong Kong- These pictures from the Post’s archive show how strikingly the enclave sat in Hong Kong’s landscape
In March 1993, bulldozers moved in to begin condemning the Kowloon Walled City to Hong Kong’s history.
The slum area, known in Cantonese as the City of Darkness, was an infamous 2.7-hectare enclave of opium parlours and gambling dens run by triads, a place where police, health inspectors and even tax collectors feared to tread.
These pictures from the Post’s archive show what life was like inside the settlement, and how strikingly it sat in Hong Kong’s landscape.
Dark legacy of Kowloon Walled City lives on in modern-day Hong Kong
Dark legacy of Kowloon Walled City lives on in modern-day Hong Kong
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25 years on, the Kowloon Walled City still evokes awe and revulsion
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Kowloon Walled City 25 years on: vignettes from the City of Darkness
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Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness
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What was it really like living in Kowloon Walled City?
Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City, from the 1970s to demolition
Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City, from the 1970s to demolition
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Kowloon Walled City: when Hong Kong called time on ‘dirty old wart’
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How Kowloon Walled City survived attempts to knock it down for almost a century
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