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Lim, Louisa.
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Protest movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Dissenters -- China -- Hong Kong.
Social movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions.
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government.
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Lim, Louisa.
Protest movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Dissenters -- China -- Hong Kong.
Social movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions.
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government.
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Indelible city :
dispossession
and
defiance
in
Hong
Kong
/ Louisa Lim.
by
Lim, Louisa.
Riverhead Books, 2022.
Call #:
303.4840951 L732i
Subjects
Protest movements -- China --
Hong
Kong
-- History.
Dissenters -- China --
Hong
Kong
.
Social movements -- China --
Hong
Kong
-- History.
Hong
Kong
(China) -- Social conditions.
Hong
Kong
(China) -- Politics and government.
ISBN:
9780593191811 (hc)
Alternate title:
Dispossession
and
defiance
in
Hong
Kong
Description:
xii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-306).
Summary:
"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."--Publisher.
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