Recommendations from our site
“It’s just a moving book to me. It’s beautifully written. It’s made up of personal essays by journalists…Most of the essays are by Hong Kongers. There is one by a mainland journalist who has been living in Hong Kong and writes anonymously. There’s one chapter by a journalist from Taiwan. It’s a very small book, almost pamphlet-like.” Read more...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Historian
“It’s a short collection of essays from young Hong Kong journalists who were on the frontlines of the recent protests and it is a bracing introduction to how it feels to have your home pulled apart in front of your eyes. Outside observers pride themselves on their cool analysis. By very deliberate contrast, this is writing that lives, breathes, cries, screams and bleeds. For these writers, Hong Kong is not a story or a portent of the coming Cold War between China and the West. It is their home, their family, their fight, their future.” Read more...
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