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Cantonese Love Stories
Twenty-five Vignettes of a City: Penguin Specials
Summary
A collection of twenty-five narrative sketches, Cantonese Love Stories offers an intimate look into the cultural, commercial and romantic milieu of Hong Kong in the 1990s.
Characters and Scenes
Two lovers ruminate on the power of their photo booth stickers to keep them together.
Peach-pocket Girl reads stolen love letters at a café.
Pui Pui knows a Portuguese egg tart is authentic if she dreams of riding a boat-like egg tart.
Setting and Theme
Each character inhabits a different corner of Hong Kong’s dreamscape; together they bring to life Dung Kai-cheung’s imaginative vision of the city.
