Post launches anthology of reporting on year of Hong Kong protests

‘Rebel City: Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire’ distils more than 5,000 news reports, analyses, commentaries and fresh interviews by the Post reporting team

The 512-page book ‘encapsulates the blood, sweat and tears of a world city at the crossroads’, editor-in-chief Tammy Tam says

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Co-published with international academic publisher World Scientific, the Post’s ‘Rebel City: Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire’ offers an in-depth account of an unprecedented political crisis distilled from thousands of news reports, analyses and commentaries. Photo: Felix Wong

Published: 9:30am, 1 Jun 2020Updated: 12:23pm, 10 May 2021

The South China Morning Post has published a book, Rebel City: Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire, chronicling the political confrontation that has gripped the city since last summer.

The 512-page anthology, co-published with international academic publisher World Scientific, is an in-depth account of the unprecedented political crisis and distilled from more than 5,000 news reports, analyses, commentaries and fresh interviews from the Post’s reporting team.

“The book is a non-partisan account of the events of 2019 and a fact-based attempt to explain all the contradictions, nuances and complexities of the anti-government protest movement triggered by the ill-fated extradition bill,” said Tammy Tam, editor-in-chief of the Post.

The Post’s in-depth look at a year of profound upheaval will be available online and in bookstores this week. Photo: Felix Wong

“Rebel City encapsulates the blood, sweat and tears of a world city at a crossroads and still impacted by those events today. I’m proud of what this book represents and our team’s contribution in covering one of the biggest social and political upheavals of our times.”

The social unrest, unparalleled in Hong Kong’s history, first erupted last June as an estimated one million people took to the streets to oppose the extradition bill, which would have allowed the transfer of fugitives to mainland China, among other jurisdictions with which the city does not have agreements.