Indelible city : dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong / Louisa Lim.
Publication details: Wurundjeri Country ; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : The Text Publishing Company, 2022.Description: xii, 306 pages : portrait ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922458513
- 1922458511
- Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong
- Social movements
- Dissenters
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- Protest movements
- Protest movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History
- Dissenters -- China -- Hong Kong
- Social movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History
- China -- Hong Kong
- Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions
- Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government
- Australian
- 303.484095125 23
- HN752.5 .L54 2022
- Stella Prize Shortlist 2023.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 303.484 LIM | Available | 071843 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306)
"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 atthe 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 theunique identity Lim unforgettably conveys-Hong Kong as a place of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation, silence and voice"--
Stella Prize Shortlist 2023.