Indelible City : Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
by
Louisa Lim
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
059319182X
ISBN-13
9780593191828
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Imprint
Riverhead Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 18th, 2023
Print length
306 Pages
Weight
256 grams
Dimensions
13.20 x 20.20 x 2.40 cms
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.
The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a ?barren rock? with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kong's history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decades realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city's untold stories.
Lim's deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kong a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.
An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.
The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a ?barren rock? with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kong's history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decades realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city's untold stories.
Lim's deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kong a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.
The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a barren rock with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kongs history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Limraised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decadesrealized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the citys untold stories.
Lims deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Konga site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.
An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.
The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a barren rock with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kongs history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Limraised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decadesrealized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the citys untold stories.
Lims deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Konga site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.
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