Bibliograph

Indelible city, dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong, Louisa Lim

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Indelible city, dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong, Louisa Lim

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Indelible city

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1308956373

Responsibility statement

Louisa Lim

Sub title

dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong

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. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Throughout, it is populated by contemporary figures who, like her, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story: guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and wending through it all, the King of Kowloon, a mentally ill trash collector, descended from royalty, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the unique identity Lim unforgettably conveys-Hong Kong as a place of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation, silence and voice"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Dominion. Words ; Ancestors ; Kowloon -- Dispossession. New territories ; Hong Kong government ; King -- Defiance. The first generation ; Country

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Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong

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