永久性香港 Forever This Hong Kong

TFP guest essayist Xu Xi 許素細 longs for—and mourns—her 'forever' home. 'Too soon, too soon,' she writes, 'our city is becoming a removably moveable feast.'

An estimated 1.3 million Hong Kongers march in protest of a controversial, and eventually abandoned, extradition bill, June 9, 2019. (credit: LewisTsePuiLung​ion)

By Xu Xi 許素細

永久性居民forever citizens neither leave nor return. Covid, we suspect, is just a fortuitously convenient excuse to let us go forever. A three-week quarantine is only the beginning. A Na…