The 2019 protests in Hong Kong are a theme throughout the book. Over the past 25 years, China has chipped away at Hong Kong's autonomy, and there have been a number of protests, most notably in 20. Today, Hong Kong, officially known as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a semi-autonomous region in name only, as the Chinese government controls many, if not most, aspects of social and political administration there. It was returned to China in 1997 with Beijing pledging that Hong Kong would retain its high degree of autonomy and rights for 50 years. What I didn't know was that the book would also be an immensely readable account of a life far from mine that still felt familiar.Ĭhina ceded the sparsely inhabited island of Hong Kong to Britain in 1842 at the end of the First Opium War. While reading The Impossible City, I knew that I'd learn a lot about recent protests in Hong Kong, and I did. A memoir of countercultural life in contemporary Hong Kong.
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