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Born in Canton in 1921, Tsang Tsou Choi (a.k.a King of Kowloon) travelled to Hong Kong as a poor, barely literate teenager. After discovering some important ancestral documents, Tsang claimed that the land of Kowloon belonged to his family, thereby adopting the title “King of Kowloon”. Over the years, he became a cultural icon, covering the streets of the international city -Hong Kong with his unique form of calligraphy with Chinese brush, ink and occasionally marker. The unrestrained nature of his practice meant that he was able to project his ideas on ubiquitous walls, lampposts, under …