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Indelible City
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim
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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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Excellent! My 3rd book from the Stella shortlist. This is the best so far and would be a very worthy winner. 🤞.
I‘ve been educated and deeply moved by this book. I have friends from Hong Kong . Also I‘ve kept in touch with a former pupil who lives there now and has chosen to stay. She is no longer on FB and told me early on she can not talk about anything political anymore. In fact we hardly “ speak” anymore. 🥲. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

SamAnne I lived in Hong Kong in 1991 and really loved my time there and the people I met. I read the news regularly. Heartbreaking. 11mo
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It is in the high 80s with a wonderful breeze and not a cloud in the sky. Feeling more positive today and just continuing on with my life one step at a time.

mcctrish Sounds like the best plan 2y
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