Indelible City

Author : Chew Yi Wei
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814794848
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible City written by Chew Yi Wei and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city is a place laced with the material and the immaterial, the visible and invisible. There are the migratory lines trod by our ancestors, the scent of our foodways, the flight of birds, the sigh of an old school, a demolished rooftop, an unassuming lamppost, fading tongues, empty chairs, extroverted harbours. These are the indelible marks that layer our city, that make up where we are, and who we are. Drawing together her memories growing up in Singapore and lyrical observations of the nation’s ever-changing landscape, Yi Wei creates an evocative portrait of the city and what it means to her. Beautifully rendered and delicately written, Indelible City brings you on an intimate sojourn with Yi Wei as she explores issues of home, identity and place.

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059319182X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible City written by Louisa Lim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 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, Hong Kong’s 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 nearly two decades—realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city’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. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kong—a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Louisa Lim's Indelible City written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-11T22:59:00Z with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The protests in Hong Kong were not just about the extradition law, but also about the city’s independence and its rule of law. The British had not given their subjects full citizenship or universal suffrage, but they had instilled in them civic values including respect for freedom, democracy, and human rights. #2 I was in Hong Kong during the Umbrella Movement, and I was amazed by the way the city was being transformed into an open-air gallery of populist ideas. These displays were called Lennon Walls, after a wall in Prague that had been painted with countercultural, anti-establishment graffiti beginning in the 1980s. #3 In China, the history of the written word dates back some 3,700 years. The first instances were pictographs known as jiaguwen, or oracle bone inscriptions, carved with a sharp instrument on tortoise shells or the shoulder blades of oxen, dating to the Shang dynasty. #4 Tsang Chau-sang was a Chinese man who was born in Guangdong province in Liantang village in Zhaoqing prefecture. He began writing in public around 1956, and was initially viewed as a crank and a vandal. But in his mind, he was an emperor.

Author : Chew Yi Wei
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789814794251
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible City written by Chew Yi Wei and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited. This book was released on 2018 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Debut collection of essays about personal memories in Singapore's changing urban landscape* Author has a PhD in Literature from NUS, teaches in SIM International Academy* Author will promote book in libraries, schools and public places* Creative non-fiction / literary non-fiction as a genre is becoming popular

Author : Andrew J. Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192667548
Total Pages : 865 pages
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Total Pages : 860 pages
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