Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

by Louisa Lim

Book Overview

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

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.

The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a "barren rock" with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059319182X
• ISBN13: 9780593191828
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"