NCTA Alumni in the University of Pittsburgh Coordinating Site region are invited to join this book discussion group on "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" by Louisa Lim. Over ten weeks participants will join online discussions on the book which will also include timely news articles that pertain directly to Hong Kong today.
Once registered participants receive more information about logging on and will receive a complimentary copy of the book.
More about the book: “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, its 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 more than a decade—realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth Hong Kong’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.” (https://www.louisalim.com/indelible-city).