Summary: <p>This fall, students in Hong Kong will learn a new version of history — one that erases the fact the region was ever a British colony. According to four history textbooks currently under development in China, Hong Kong has always been a part of China, despite over a century of British dominion. And so continues a pattern of effacing and repainting histories. </p> <p>During her years as a reporter in Hong Kong, <a href="https://twitter.com/limlouisa">Louisa Lim</a>, author of the new book <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646684/indelible-city-by-louisa-lim/">Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong</a>, stumbled across shards of her city's various, conflicting histories — some imposed by colonial forces, others originating from Hong Kongers themselves. This week, <a href="https://twitter.com/Annaleen">Annalee Newitz</a> talks to Lim about the myths that obscure the region's past, and the impact this myriad of histories has had on Hong Kongers' sense of political and cultural identity. </p>
