Indelible city : 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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780593191811
ISBN: 0593191838
ISBN: 9780593191835
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustration
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Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Words -- Genealogies -- Kowloon -- New Territories 1979-1984 -- Hong Kong Government 1984-1997 -- King 1998-2014 -- The First Generation -- Country 2019.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2022).