Indestructible City?

In the current (Aug. 18) issue of The New York Review of Books I have an essay on four impressive new books about Hong Kong by Ho-fung Hung, Louisa Lim, Karen Cheung and Mark Clifford.
These books give real insider accounts by people who were either born there, raised there, or simply lived most of their adult life there.
They offer different angles–by academics, millennials, journalists–into the complexity of Hong Kong. Some try to stay optimistic–that somehow, the city’s liberties won’t die.