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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, 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.
About the Author
Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist who has reported from China for the past decade, most recently for National Public Radio. Previously she was the BBC's Beijing Correspondent.
She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband and two children.
