MixedThe Sydney Morning HeraldBut, disappointingly, Dapiran’s book is one-sided and one-dimensional. It does not give us a thoroughly nuanced insight into the complicated reality ... Dapiran certainly writes lucidly about the demonstrators’ varied strategies and explains in useful detail how the 2019 protest movement forms part of a history of dissent in the city of Hong Kong ... confrontation hasn’t worked. Dialogue might. But that should be left to the people of Hong Kong without the interference of grandstanding Western politicians uber-keen to bash China.
