"Losing the City" is the name of a short story by Wong Bik-wan that scholars have cited as defining a central theme in Hong Kong literature in the 1990s, hence "Losing the City Literature." Dung Kai-cheung's The Rise and Fall of Wing Shing Street and Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, which he wrote on the eve of the handover in 1997, both mourn for the city Dung is going to lose and also offer a critique of political domination. But Dung's critique is hardly explicit, as he eschews precise definitions and conventional narrative temporality. As a result, both of these works are hard to grasp and even nihilistic. Almost at the same time, the Taiwanese writer Zhu Tianxin published The Old Capital. In this novel, she reexamines Taipei from the point of view of a tourist who feels estranged from and afraid of the city she grew up in. Her novel, like Dung's two works cited above, implies that Zhu Tianxin also feels she is losing her city. David Der-wei Wang discussed both Dung's and Zhu's works in terms of "Post-Loyalist" literature in his The Thousand Year Dream of the Well-Governed State of Huaxu because both writers remain loyal to a city that they feel they are losing, with the disagreement about Wang's diagnosis, this paper will argue that Dung and Zhu's oeuvres are comparable but distinct. By comparing Dung Kai-cheung's V City (and The Rise and Fall of Wing Shing Street) with Zhu Tianxin's The Old Capital (and In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound and The Flâneur), this study claims that while both Dung and Zhu appear to feel they have lost their cities, there are nonetheless crucial differences in the expression of the subject matter, historical ideology and spiritual qualities that make the "Post-Loyalist" label questionable. On the one hand this research underlines the ambiguity of "Loyalist" and "Post-Loyalist" in David Der-wei Wang's theory, and on the other hand, it aims to demonstrate that the concepts of "city" literature and hsiang-tu in Hong Kong and Taiwan have different meanings in their respective contexts.