Hong Kong

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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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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-23-16
  

  A Doomed Battle for Hong Kong, With Only Medals Left 75 Years Later

  The highest-ranking Canadian soldier killed in action during World War II was shot in a largely forgotten fight that left nearly 3,000 soldiers dead, 290 of then Canadian.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7-11-16
  

  Hong Kong museum commemorating Tiananmen massacre to close

  The Hong Kong Alliance claimed that the owners' committee was making it hard for the museum to operate -- forcing visitors to leave their names and personal information and restricting visitor numbers.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  1-9-16
  

  The ongoing threats to free expression in Hong Kong

  by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  Then they came for the booksellers.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  11-21-15
  

  Hong Kong is changing

  by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  What a historian found when he revisited the city in the wake of the Umbrella Movement.

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  11-3-14
  

  Tracing the origins of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

  by Ho-fung Hung

  Recent opinion polls show that Hong Kong identity has been surging while Chinese identity has been fading among Hong Kong residents, particularly among youth.