EAN: 9780593191828

INDELIBLE CITY - LOUISA LIM KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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