Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim

320 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional medium-paced
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The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial that had at last returned to the ancestral fold. To its inhabitants, t...

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