Claire Miye Stanford — The Monarch Review

In Mong Kok – Claire Miye Stanford

Thursday, September 5, 2013 11:55 — 0 Comments

I arrived in Hong Kong in the summer of 2006, the day before the annual Dragon Boat Festival. I had just graduated from college, and, without knowing exactly how, had found myself on the long flight, on my way to teach English for a month. Just a month. This is not one of those stories that ends with me falling in love with the place and staying longer, or falling in love with the place and returning year after year, or falling in love with the place and all of its contradictions and difficulties – which in Hong Kong are […]