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Despite its grim reputation, Girard and Lambot’s work revealed a resilient, industrious community. Many residents were not criminals but refugees and workers who formed a tight-knit society in the chaos.

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Published just as the city was being cleared for demolition, the book City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City Despite its grim reputation, Girard and Lambot’s work

Years later, when the walls finally came down in the slow swallowing of engines and dust, photographs and jars of plum preserves survived in a dozen suitcases and cardboard boxes. Mei’s noodle cart reappeared in a new place, the bowl still steaming, tasting oddly like an old street. The camera’s prints—edges curled, speckled with rain—were pasted into albums and entrusted to those who kept stories alive. Mei’s noodle cart reappeared in a new place,