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'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how
the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its
president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi's China as
unshakeable as it seems? What are its real interests in Hong Kong?
Why are Beijing's time-honoured means of control no longer working
there? And where does this leave Hongkongers themselves? Stephen
Vines has lived in Hong Kong for over three decades. His book
shrewdly unpacks the Hong Kong-China relationship and its wider
significance-right up to the astonishing convergence of political
turmoil and international crisis with Covid-19 and the 2020
crackdown. Vividly describing the uprising from street level, Vines
explains how and why it unfolded, and its global repercussions.
Now, the international community is reassessing relations with
Beijing, just as Hong Kong's rebellion and China's handling of the
pandemic have exposed the regime's weakness. In a crisis that has
become existential all round, what lies ahead for Hong Kong, China
and the world?
William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and
contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and Experience
to his last epic Jerusalem, ceaselessly explored the conflicts
between limitation and possibility, reason and energy, torment and
joy. But the contradictions within Blake's own 'visionary' poetics
are less often considered. Throughout his work, Blake powerfully
dramatises the energies and agonies of his own poetic labour.
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