Kowloon Walled City Park

This guide to Kowloon Walled City Park in Hong Kong traces the sky-blocking, wire-choked enclave that once packed fifty thousand people onto this same two-point-seven hectares. It follows the 1898 leasing dispute that left this patch of ground claimed by both Britain and China and governed by neither, and the unlicensed doctors, dentists, and rooftop-wandering children who filled the vacuum that followed. Listen for how residents kept the water pumps running by rationing electricity among themselves.