Dispossession and defiance: how Hong Kong’s struggle explains our world
Two new books on China’s “world city” tell a far richer, more nuanced story than colonialism, then capitalism and Beijing’s growing tyranny.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Yangyang Cheng is a particle physicist and a Fellow at Yale Law School.
Two new books on China’s “world city” tell a far richer, more nuanced story than colonialism, then capitalism and Beijing’s growing tyranny.
By Yangyang Cheng