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this book is SO FUCKING GOOD!!!!! making me rethink the colonial triangulation (quadrangulation?????) between China/HK, Mexico, the US and the UK at the turn of the century. it’s laugh out loud funny in the same way that it is also horrifying. answering a lot of my questions abt British Chinese political conscience and history, framed through a Chinese expat’s perspective so it’s hitting extra

The first part of this book gave me a shred of hope that everything would turn out okay-ish for the Ma's, but every chapter in the second so far has been incredibly hard to read. It's just devastating. Of all the postcolonial literature I think this is the first one that makes me feel genuine hatred for the British.