Reinventing a city

Hong Kong occupies a strange cultural territory between the Western world and China. Former Harvard professor Leo Ou-fan Lee's "City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong," is a guide to the culture and geography of this city with a colonial past and consumerist future. In it, he explores the friction between a city preserving its history and becoming a trade power as it reinvents itself with a mix of traditional and modern values. He reads from the book tonight. 7 p.m. Free. The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. 617-499-2000. thecoop.com