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A powerfully written meditation on identity and hopeless defiance that straddles the line between personal memoir and biography of a city. I can't help but feel like it would have been a stronger book if it had committed more firmly in one direction or the other, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate the book I got. My one real complaint is the lack of illustrations; even a four-page center spread would have helped put faces to names and highlight how the city grew and changed under British
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This book is an interesting intersection of history and memoir, intertwining the history of British and then Beijing imperialism in Hong Kong with the author's experiences growing up in the city and then being mildly involved in the protest movement leading up to Beijing's imposition of a "national security" law on the colony. It wasn't what I expected, in part since I was reading it for an urbanist book club, but I think it was well worth reading, and I certainly learned a good deal.
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