Hong Kong: a city with no memory · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

A dead tycoon’s granddaughter is appealing to her family to stop the sale of a vast private garden, famed as the setting for films such as James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun, to a property developer. BigWhiteGuy comments that “Hong Kong is a city with no memory. Whether deliberate or ingrained, the desire to tear down the old — regardless of historical or cultural value — is rooted in nothing more than greed. Such is life in a property-driven market.“