A Walled City. Inside the kowloon walled city where 50 kowloon walled city was notorious for drugs and crime but many of its 50,000 residents lived their lives peacefully until it was demolished in the early 90s. A former qing dynasty fortress, it never fully came.
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It was called the kowloon walled city.
Originally a chinese military fort, the walled city became an enclave after the new territories were leased to britain in 1898. I spoke with him recently and he. Kowloon walled city was known as an enclave for criminals, but that only tells one side of the story. He was one of the people that helped filmed this 1989 documentary about the city.
