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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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Lale Ariokglu: Hello, I'm Lale Arikoglu. And in today's Women Who Travel, we're visiting Hong Kong with Louisa Lim. Her book, Indelible City, is both memoir and journalism.
Louisa Lim: 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. They're not just sort of nameless, faceless people handed over by one power to another, but they're actual people.
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LA: We're going to chat about uncovering the real Hong Kong and how to discover it as a traveler. You know, you grew up in Hong Kong, you live in Melbourne. How often do you go back to Hong Kong right now?
LL: I can't go back to Hong Kong since the book came out. So, you know, even when I was writing that book, I was always erasing it in the knowledge that this book would make it hard for me to go back to the city that I was writing about, the city that I think of as my hometown. In many ways the book, it was a love letter, it was a farewell letter, it was a, [laughs] a pretty hard book to write.
LA: How certain were you that you were going to just... that the book was more important than being able to return again, like that's a really difficult decision to make.
LL: I mean, well, I started writing the book a long time ago. I'm a pretty slow writer and it took me eight years to write this book. And I never, obviously, [laughs] meant it to be that long. And of course, when I started, you know, it was a really low risk project.
LA: Well, I was gonna say, eight years ago, that's a very different time in Hong Kong's recent history.
LL: That's right. And I never imagined that, you know, there would be any consequences. My children, um, said to me, "Oh, mom, mom, we really love Hong Kong, you know, don't say anything bad. You know, we [laughs] we want to be able to go back." And I was like, "Of course, it'll be fine. You know, Hong Kong's completely different, you know, none of that applies." And then, of course, everything changed.
LA: Your dad is Chinese, your mom is British
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