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If Hong Kong’s heritage is to blame for the Tai Po fire, it wasn’t the bamboo - The Globe and Mail

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People were quick to fault Hong Kong’s famous bamboo scaffolding for the deadly fire at Wang Fuk Court, but the city’s deep inequality is a far likelier culprit

Open this photo in gallery: People look on near the Wang Fuk Court housing complex after the deadly Nov. 26 fire, in Hong Kong on Dec. 1. Amr Alfiky/Reuters Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account Joanna Chiu is a B.C.-based journalist, author of China Unbound and managing partner of Nüora Global Advisors . As a child, I always felt safe walking under the bamboo canopies that sprouted along Hong Kong’s sidewalks, even when I could hear workers overhead. The same ease followed me through so many parts of my hometown, this vertical city rising higher

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