Hong Kong’s Untold Stories

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Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Lale chats with journalist and author Louisa Lim about her recent book, Indelible City, which dives deep into the untold stories of Hong Kong, both past and present, through a cast of calligraphers, street artists, and more, while also reflecting on her own personal connection with a place she long-called home.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and in today's women who travel, we're visiting Hong Kong with Louisa Lynn.
0:11.6	Her book, Indelible City, is both memoir and journalism.
0:17.6	I thought, you know, I want to write a history of Hong Kong or book about Hong Kong where Hong Kongers are the main players.
0:25.5	They're not just sort of nameless, faceless people handed over by one power to another, but they're actual people.
0:31.4	Free Hong Kong!
0:34.6	Free Hong Kong! We're going to We're going to We're We're
0:38.3	We're
0:39.3	Trave
0:42.3	We're
0:43.3	going to
0:47.3	about
0:48.3	uncovering the real Hong Kong
0:49.3	and how to discover
0:50.3	it as a traveller.
0:51.3	I discover it as a traveler.
1:02.5	You know, you grew up in Hong Kong, you live in Melbourne.
1:05.6	How often do you go back to Hong Kong right now? I can't go back to Hong Kong since the book came out.
1:09.3	So, you know, even when I was writing that book,
1:12.6	I was already writing it in the knowledge that this book would make it hard for me to go
1:19.1	back to the city that I was writing about, the city that I think of as my hometown. In many ways,
1:25.3	the book, it was a love letter, it was a farewell letter, it was a
1:29.2	pretty hard book to write. How certain were you that you were going to just, that the book was
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