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This chapter focuses on the concept of the labyrinth as we survey the street scenes in the Tsim Sha Tsui district. The streets of Hong Kong have been made unrecognizable as a result of the 2019 anti-government street protests and the COVID-19 pandemic. What was I recognizing as I walked the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui with my camera? In these street photographs and the ensuing thoughts and feelings evoked by them, the focus is not so much on what they represent but on how the uncanny emerges from scenes that are determinedly familiar.
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Tay, E. (2022). Tsim Sha Tsui as Labyrinth. In: Hong Kong as Creative Practice. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21362-5_2
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