Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong | 誠品線上

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

內容簡介

內容簡介 不滅之城：香港的剝奪與反抗重返天安門之後，林慕蓮重返香港現場《重返天安門》作者 林慕蓮 新作！英國人和中國人都說香港人是經濟動物，對政治無感，但林慕蓮從不做如是想。她承繼華人與英國人血統，童年在香港度過，對發掘香港故事有得天獨厚的優勢。本書揉合報導文學與回憶錄，除觀照香港歷史轉捩點（如1842年英國接管、1997年回歸中國、2019年後北京的箝制等），也讓街頭塗鴉者、文史工作者、考古學者等發聲，讓香港人成為故事中心。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 fold. For decades, Hong Kong’s history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim—raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decades—realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city’s untold stories. Lim’s deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kong—a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Louisa LimLouisa Lim is the author of The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Helen Bernstein Award. She covered China and Hong Kong for a decade, as a correspondent for the BBC and NPR, and has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Raised in Hong Kong, she now teaches at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she lives with her two children.

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