Hong Kong no es ciudad para lentos

Tiny homes at impossible prices, mistrust of authority for corruption, air conditioners everywhere to cope with the humidity, parents obsessed with giving exotic names to their children... Without a doubt, Hong Kong is a unique city. This vertically built former British colony, home to 7.5 million people in just 1,100 km², enjoys a vibrant daily life and is in a constant race towards no one knows where, several years ahead of the rest of the cities of the world. Hong Kong is not a city for slow people is a treatise on modern Asian life that concisely and forcefully examines some of the social, cultural and existential problems that the city faces. To do so, it takes the reader on a tour de force through the real estate market, the deep poverty that stalks old age, human tides or the deprivation of rights of foreign domestic workers. Jason Y. Ng precisely spells out the idiosyncrasy of the city, exposing the best and worst of this rushed society.