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Hong Kong is often discussed in terms of dichotomies, positioning East against West, old against new, British against Chinese. But for journalist-turned-historian Vaudine England, it is the spaces in-between, and the people that occupy them, that are interesting, as she discussed in the latest episode of HKFP Yum Cha. In her book, Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong, which was published in May, England traces some of the many human interactions that shaped the city’s early decades. The families she follows – among them Armenians, Parsis, and Russians – came from across Eurasia to settle …

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