The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir Cheung Karen
An insider's account of Hong Kong and its people--from its tenacious counterculture and robust underground music scene, to its unique history of youth-led protest--that explores what it means to…
Specifikacia The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir Cheung Karen
An insider's account of Hong Kong and its people--from its tenacious counterculture and robust underground music scene, to its unique history of youth-led protest--that explores what it means to survive in a city of broken promises.In a place where time is running out, sometimes the most radical act is remembrance.Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents take to the streets to rally against encroaching threats on their democracy and freedoms. But it is also misunderstood and often romanticized, its history and politics oversimplified in Western headlines. Drawing richly from her own experience, as well as countless interviews with the artists, protestors, students, and writers who have made Hong