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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xii, 306 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593191811
  • 0593191811
Other title:
  • Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong
Subject(s):
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 303.484 L732 Available 33111010652432
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 303.484 L732 Available 33111010821433
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths, even to its own inhabitants, its distinctive origins remained untaught and unknown. Lim's deeply researched - and deeply personal - account casts often startling new light on key moments and contemporary figures: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its 'return' to China in 1997, the current protests, the future Beijing seeks to impose, guerilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and the King of Kowloon, a mentally ill trash collector descended of royalty.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306).

Words -- Ancestors -- Kowloon -- New territories -- Hong Kong government -- King -- The first generation -- Country.

"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.

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