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Author Lim, Louisa, author.

Title Indelible city : dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong / Louisa Lim.

Publication Info. New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  951.25 LIM    Check Shelf
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Description xii, 306 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306).
Contents Words -- Ancestors -- Kowloon -- New territories -- Hong Kong government -- King -- The first generation -- Country.
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.
Subject Protest movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions.
Dissenters -- China -- Hong Kong.
Social movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government.
HISTORY / Social History.
Dissenters. (OCoLC)fst00895401
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Protest movements. (OCoLC)fst01079826
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
China -- Hong Kong. (OCoLC)fst01260796
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong
Other Form: Online version: Lim, Louisa. Indelible city New York : Riverhead, 2022 9780593191835 (DLC) 2021039691
ISBN 9780593191811 (hardcover)
0593191811 (hardcover)
9780593191835 (ebook)
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