Hong Kong, a fallen city

For days, weeks, months, they marched through the streets, their dignity as the only armor against tyranny. Each of their banners displayed the same slogan, now banned by the oppressor: FREE HONG KONG Hong Kong, Fallen City is an exceptional testimony. That of a young artist committed, welcomed recently in Hong Kong in a spirit of benevolence, which takes made and caused the values ​​of freedom of the territory where he flourished. Faced with the totalitarian violence of a merciless dictatorship, the days of the Hong Kong democracy, yesterday a symbol of an open Chinese society and tolerant, are counted. It is the chronicle of this announced killing that holds this chilling book, intertwined with undeniable autobiographical accents present and prospective, reality and fiction. Deeply empathetic and uncommonly powerful, Hong Kong, a fallen city stands out as a vital and necessary book, with a freedom of tone and a fairly rare expression in the Chinese world. The cover illustration was made by Kwong-shing Lau specially for this French edition. Translated from Chinese by Bertrand Speller