Notes & links: 'The Indelible City'

Thank you to everyone who joined this month's conversation about Louisa Lim's book Indelible City: Dispossess and Defiance in Hong Kong. We had much to discuss.

Here are a variety of resources recommended by our members for further exploration:

• YouTube: 2022 lecture by Lim at University College Dublin 

• YouTube: Lim on "The People's Republic of Amnesia"

• The New York Times: "Where Are Hong Kong's Leading Pro-Democracy Figures Now" (3/20/2024)

• The Guardian's coverage of the new National Security Law

• The Little Red Podcast co-hosted by Louisa Lim and Graeme Smith

• Louisa Lim's previous book, The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited

• For those interested in more on the King of Kowloon, Lim's "long read" about her search for "the cult graffiti prophet of Hong Kong" and an Art Basel profile.

Next up for April: Empress of the Nile

Topic: Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson

In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: the international campaign to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the daring French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples—including the Temple of Dendur, now at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—would currently be at the bottom of a vast reservoir.' (more)

When & Where

Sunday, April 28

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (est)

Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco

The book is available at Books Inc. Opera Plaza. (Or follow this is the link to the eBook.)