Hong Kong

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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.

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• SOURCE: South China Morning Post
  10-19-14
  

  How Hong Kong's business elite have thwarted democracy for 150 years

  by Philip Bowring

  Philip Bowring says a look back over the past 150 years reveals how Hong Kong's business elite have continually used their power to frustrate the public's democratic ambitions

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  10-10-14
  

  Why Hong Kong showdown could never have morphed into Tiananmen 2.0

  by Sergey Radchenko

  The domestic and world circumstances that led the Chinese leadership to order the Tiananmen massacre no longer exist.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  9-29-14
  

  The Hong Kong events in historical perspective: An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  by Zack Beauchamp

  "There's been tension between Hong Kong and Beijing for some time. When did it start becoming acute, and why is it boiling over now?"

• SOURCE: South China Morning Post
  7-20-13
  

  Book on Hong Kong history withdrawn after censorship from mainland China

  A translated work that apparently censored remarks on politics - such as Democratic Party founding chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming comparing the handover of Hongkongers to China to "surrendering Jews to Adolf Hitler's Germany" - will be recalled after its writer cried foul over the unapproved changes.The book's mainland-funded local publisher, Chung Hwa Book Company, agreed last night to withdraw the Chinese edition of A Concise History of Hong Kong from sale. It also apologised to the history professor who penned the work in English.Professor John Carroll, associate dean of the University of Hong Kong's arts faculty, earlier said he was "shocked and disappointed" about the changes....