Hong Kong, China: Poems on Ugliness

A poem on “Hong Kong – an Ugly City” from an University student has inspired Hong Kong netizens to write their own poems, such as “China – an ugly country” and “China – a Pathetic Country”.

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  • […] Actually, you can sometimes doubt the power of words. Here’s really bad poetry. “The offending poem ‘Hong Kong – an Ugly City’ is written by Dominique Zhang, a postgraduate student in English Language Arts of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University…” [Dictionary of Politically Incorrect Hong Kong Cantonese, via Global Voices] […]

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