Hong Kong To Nanjing
August 14th 2011 It was never part of my master plan to return to Chungking Mansions. Last time I stayed there I was caught in a tower block fire.
A Chinese fireman, clad in full breathing apparatus, grabbed my arm and pulled me through a thick cloud of acrid black smoke. Unfortunately the surprise of this move caused me to take an involuntary lungful of the stuff which stripped most of the functional cells fr
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