Hong Kong 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/13/2020
Why Jimmy Lai and Hong Kong’s Democracy Advocates Need Biden’s Public Support Right Now
by Natan Sharansky
A former Soviet political prisoner and human rights advocate calls on the Biden transition team to make clear that the new president will not accept China's repression of democracy in Hong Kong.
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SOURCE: CNN
11/18/2020
Hong Kong's New Rules have Created Confusion in the Classroom. Some Parents are Pulling their Children Out
While pro-Beijing lawmakers stress the need to promote national unity through civics education, educators, historians and parents in Hong Kong expect censorship and indoctrination under new restrictions.
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SOURCE: Rest of World
10/26/2020
Control, Alter, Delete:Hong Kong Activists and Academics are Hurrying to Digitize Historical Records
Museums dedicated to the struggle for civil liberties in Hong Kong face a crisis to preserve records in the face of new public safety laws aimed at curbing criticism of the People's Republic of China.
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9/13/2020
Fried Ice Cream and Steak: A Personal History of Hong Kong
by Ron Steinman
For a journalist on leave from Vietnam, a Hong Kong restaurant was a brief reprieve from the demands of war coverage and the tumult of rebellion in Hong Kong.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
9/9/2020
Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too
by Macabe Keliher
While orthodox economists like to point to Hong Kong as an ideal free market, the social consequences have been disastrous. Inequality is rising, wages are declining and working hours increasing, overall economic opportunity is dwindling, and housing is so unaffordable that office workers sleep in McDonalds. Is it any wonder that the streets are now burning?
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SOURCE: CNN
6/1/2020
For the First Time in 30 Years, Hong Kong Will Not Hold a Mass Vigil Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre
The official reason given by police was to limit risk of Coronavirus transmission.
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6/2/2020
The Chinese Dream Imperiled
by Andrew Meyer
We are going to hear much in the near future about the dangers of Chinese ambition. World leaders would be well advised, however, to prepare for the dangers of internal Chinese instability.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/21/2020
Is This the End of Hong Kong?
Sweeping new laws, justified by claims for security amid political protests, threaten to eliminate independence from Beijing in Hong Kong's political and civil life.
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5/17/2020
Hong Kong Apocalypses: Teaching the Recent Past and the Speculative Future
by James Carter
The chaos of Hong Kong's recent protests and the Coronavirus unsettled a historian's sense of the boundary between past and present. Perhaps we understand either only through the mirror of the other.
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12/22/19
China Needs to Change Strategy After Hong Kong Elections
by Kevin M. Shanley
With the depth of dissatisfaction in Hong Kong now made patently clear at the ballot box, China and Xi now face a difficult choice. Will it double down on repression or listen to the people and choose a new course that will require some compromise?
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11/19/19
Too Important or Too Irrelevant? Why Beijing Hesitates on Hong Kong
by Kevin M. Shanley
Two competing narratives possibly explain why Beijing’s authoritarian communist rulers have not so far interfered in the increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong, now six months old and heading into a deadly new phase.
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SOURCE: USA Today
11/13/19
How we fail our Chinese students
by Jonathan Zimmerman
If Chinese students spend several years in the United States and decide they don’t like democracy, we must not be making a strong enough case for it.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/23/19
Why China should recognize that dissent can be patriotic
by Charlotte Brooks
History suggests that narrowly defining Chinese identity will backfire.
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9/22/19
The Long History of Activism Preceding The Hong Kong Democracy Protests
by Susan Blumberg-Kason
For the last 100 years, Hong Kong has seen mass protests. They'll only stop when people feel they have a voice in government.
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91/1/9
Where Are the Hong Kong Protests Headed?
by Kevin M. Shanley
After ten weeks of protest by students and others in Hong Kong the crisis seems to be spiraling toward a tragic climax.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/5/2019
Lessons From Moscow: How China Might Handle Hong Kong
Soviet experiences from decades past offer examples for what Beijing may do to quell protests in the city.
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SOURCE: NPR
6/16/19
The History Behind Hong Kong's Ongoing Protests
Victoria Hui, a Hong Kong native and political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, explains Hong Kong's political history as protests continue there.
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SOURCE: South China Morning Post
5-25-18
No separate sections on Hong Kong for new history curriculum, education authority says
Supporters of move say it would help students better understand city’s national connections while critics fear important but controversial events may be conveniently left out.
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6-30-17
20 Years Ago the British Handed over Hong Kong
by Tom Clifford
But it didn’t go as planned, thanks to the British governor, who insisted on establishing democracy before he left.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
6-4-17
Tens of Thousands in Hong Kong Commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
For the 28th year in succession, a sea of light illuminated Hong Kong's Victoria Park on the evening of June 4 in commemoration of the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
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