Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial that had at last return…

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