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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lim, Louisa, author.     Subjects     Protest movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.     Dissenters -- China -- Hong Kong.     Social movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.     Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions.     Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lim, Louisa, author.       by title:      Indelible city : dis...         MARC Display

Indelible city : dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong / Louisa Lim. by Lim, Louisa, author. New York : Riverhead Books, 2022. Subjects Protest movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.   Dissenters -- China -- Hong Kong.   Social movements -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.   Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions.   Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government. ISBN:  9780593191811 (hardcover) : 0593191811 (hardcover) Description:  xii, 306 pages : illustration ; 24 cm Contents:  Words -- Ancestors -- Kowloon -- New territories -- Hong Kong government -- King -- The first generation -- Country. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 303.48409 Li Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48409 Li Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48409 Li Checked In Add Copy to MyList Keaau P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48409 Li Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48409 Li Checked In Add Copy to MyList North Kohala Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48409 Li Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48409 Li Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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