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Author:
Louisa Lim
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Date:
April 19, 2022
Journalist Lim's account casts new light on key moments in Hong Kong's history: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story.
What The Reviewers Say
Lim’s outstanding history of Hong Kong is an epic must-read.
... this is an unapologetically personal book.
... dismantles the received wisdom about Hong Kong’s history and replaces it with an engaging, exhaustively researched account of its long struggle for sovereignty.
... beautifully written.
