Meaning of City of Victoria | Babel Free

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A city in Hong Kong.

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“Hong Kong is an indifferent guardian of its past, with old buildings too frequently torn down in favor of nondescript high-rises. But a new exhibit of historical photographs, "City of Victoria," offers a fascinating record of Hong Kong's history.”

“In addition to non-stop demolition and construction, Hong Kong is constantly re-constructing and re-figuring its past. Another fictional work, Dung Kai-chung’s The Atlas: Archaeology of an Imaginary City (2011) echoes Calvino. In this novel, the “City of Victoria” (Hong Kong) no longer exists and narrators can only divine from old maps and atlases what it was like and how it changed during 156 years as a British colony because of rapid erection and demolition of the city’s physical structures. The Hong Kong its people know, according to the writer cannot be actually pinpointed on a map, the map being only a limited and artificial translation of the place.”

“Seven such stones were found earlier, marking out the City of Victoria, Hong Kong’s first urban settlement after it became a British colony. The boundary of the settlement was gazetted in 1903.”

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