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Indelible city : dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong
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Indelible city : dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong
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Physical Description:
xii, 306 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Summary:
"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"--
Contents:
Words -- Ancestors -- Kowloon -- New territories -- Hong Kong government -- King -- The first generation -- Country.
Publication Info:
New York : Riverhead, 2022.
Subject:
Protest movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Social movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions.
Dissenters -- China -- Hong Kong
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government
Lim, Louisa
Movements, Social
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China)
Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu (China)
香港特別行政區 (China)
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu
Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü
Zhong hua ren min gong he guo Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu
中華人民共和國香港特別行政區
HKSAR (China)
Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü (China)
Xianggang (China)
香港 (China)
Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu (China)
Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
SAILS ISBN:
9780593191811