Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year Of Water And Fire
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Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year Of Water And Fire

By South China Morning Post TeamNarrated by Chike Chan, Jennifer Lim
Length14h 51m

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South China Morning Post's (SCMP) reporting team looks back at Hong Kong's most wrenching political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997. Anti-extradition bill protests that morphed rapidly into a wider anti-government movement in 2019 left no aspect of the city untouched, from its social compact to its body politic to its open economy. The demonstrations which continued well into 2020 have tested every institution of the city, from the civil service to the police to the courts and even its rail transport operator, and from offices and businesses to universities and schools, and from churches to families and even friends.This book is for anyone seeking to understand not just what Hong Kong has gone through but also the global phenomenon of increasingly leaderless protest movements. Fueled by profound angst about the place of millennial youth in society, widening income inequality, and the speed of digital communications, Hong Kong was in retrospect ripe to be the laboratory for a new-age protest movement, nearly a decade after the Middle East's Arab spring.The essays in the book collectively compose a picture of a society in trauma, bent and broken, but showing signs of an uncanny ability to bounce back. What shape it will be in a few years from now, however, is much harder to predict.Edited by Zuraidah Ibrahim & Jeffie Lam.© 2020 by South China Morning Post Team. Published in paper format in Singapore by World Scientific Publishing, recorded by Storyside 2021.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 3.8 (68)
Includes Goodreads
GenrePolitics and Government, Literary Classics
Length14 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byChike Chan, Jennifer Lim
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 18, 2021
LanguageEnglish
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