Karen Cheung is a writer and journalist from Hong Kong, who has written about politics, music, and books for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Rumpus, This American Life, The Offing, and others. She was formerly a reporter at Hong Kong Free Press, and currently works as an editor at an arts archive. Her first book, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, published in 2021, is the subject of today’s interview.

(Recorded 2/9/23.)