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FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PATH TO A FIRESTORM

Top girl Carrie Lam takes a city to the brink

•The murder behind Hong Kong’s worst political crisis

•Kill bill: The law that tore a city apart

•Chaos in Legco: The pan-democrats’ campaign

•A strained alliance

WATER AND FIRE

On one mat, no matter how perilous

•The storming of Legco

•A night of terror in Yuen Long

•The takeover of Hong Kong’s airport

•October 1: Celebrations in the capital, clashes in the city

•Campus battlegrounds: Five days that changed Chinese University

•The siege of Polytechnic University

THE MOBILIZED AND THE MARGINALIZED

Everyone could be a leader

•Teenage tear gas soldiers

•Epilogue: Tear gas soldier reviews university ambitions

•#ProtestToo: Women on the front lines

•Unions on the march

•We are all Hongkongers ... even ethnic minorities?

•Migrant workers in the danger zone

•Suffering on the margins

•A song, slogans and Lennon Walls

•Unpacking ‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times’

IN THE CROSSFIRE

The dynamics of demonization

•The unwelcome mat for mainlanders

•‘Renovation’ and ‘decoration’: Mainland-linked firms under attack

•Dark clouds over Cathay

•Trainwreck

•Tycoons caught in a political tempest

•Superman and melon-picking

•Not the Michelin Guide: When restaurants are labeled ‘yellow’ or ‘blue’

•Message from the ballot box

•The Beijing connection

LAW AND DISORDER

Asia’s finest in the dock

•Frustration and anger on the front lines

•The doxxing and the duelling

•New police commissioner, new strategy

•Tear gas: Legitimate crowd-control measure, or menace?

•Who’s watching over the police?

•Courts on trial

BEYOND BORDERS

The pawn in US-China rivalry

•Hong Kong’s division sows unity in Washington

•Courting controversy

•Being water flows overseas

•View from Singapore

REFLECTIONS

•What’s to stop Hong Kong’s ‘well water’ mixing with Beijing’s ‘river water’?

•Where the next revolution may take place in Hong Kong

•No silent majority, only a terrified minority

•The furthest distance between ‘one country’ and ‘two systems’

•Mask ban an ineffective stick. Where’s the carrot for moderate protesters?

•Forget Lam’s extradition U-turn, Xi’s channeling of Mao shows he’s about to get tough on Hong Kong

•Is it safe to be in Hong Kong? Against all odds, the answer is still a strange ‘yes’

•Hong Kong risks being condemned to its own circle of hell

•A new chain of command

SCANNING THE HORIZON

A pause for breath

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