Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
b"In this timely book, award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger,\\xa0Louisa Lim, weaves together Hong Kong's fraught political and social history with her own first hand account of the spirit of an indelible city. In her latest book,\\xa0Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong,\\xa0published by Riverhead Books in April 2022,\\xa0Lim\\xa0reflects on attempts at the erosion\\xa0of Hong Kong identity, to be replaced\\xa0with a future that Beijing seeks to impose. Since the British takeover in 1842, through to the tumultuous period of political upheaval to 2020,\\xa0\\xa0Lim weaves the personal stories of local Hong Kongers to provide an authentic, textured account of a place, its people and a spirit which continues to endure.\\xa0\\nLong-time Hong Konger\\xa0Lousia Lim\\xa0is a Senior Lecturer in audio-visual journalism, culture and communication at The University of Melbourne. She spent many years as a journalist in\\xa0Hong Kong and China.\\xa0Her first book,\\xa0The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Helen Bernstein Prize for Excellence in Journalism. She co-hosts\\xa0The Little Red Podcast, an award-winning podcast on China.\\xa0\\n\\ufeffJane Richards\\xa0is a doctoral student at the University of Hong Kong. You can find her on twitter where she follows all things related to human rights and Hong Kong politics @JaneRichardsHK\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law"