🇬🇧 UK Jul 4, 2026 · Rob Doyle

In Hong Kong, I saw the coming Chinese century

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The ideal writing residency, I think, would last an entire lifetime, not be confined to any specific location, and leave you at leisure to write as much or as little as you liked.



I’m recently back from a month-long writing residency in Hong Kong, during which I wrote nothing at all. Not a jot. I considered writing out there, moving forward with my next book, but after a few days I dropped the idea. Then I thought I might write about Hong Kong, my first visit to the region, the writing reside

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