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Dear Xu Xi: a review

7/9/2017

 
Dear Hong Kong

Xu Xi, Dear Hong Kong (Penguin, 2017), 144pp.

As I was reading Xu Xi’s latest book, Dear Hong Kong, I recalled an episode from my youth. When I was in primary two, about eight years old, I was introduced to a group of children two years my senior. They were by a large margin the best kids in my school, and my mother had hoped I would tag along and learn something. The best among that circle was John, obviously, since he was perfect. When he graduated primary school, his mother sent him to Dulwich.

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