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Also that her film career did not begin with Everything Everywhere All At Once. Or Crazy Rich Asians. Or even Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) or Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Rather, her filmography extends back to 1984 and her first starring role came in 1985's Yes, Madam!
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On Press Freedom Day, I wish to pay tribute to Gwyneth Ho. One of Hong Kong's political prisoners (she was among the 47 arrested on 2/28/2021, and has been denied bail all this time), she was the Stand News journalist who reported live from Yuen Long MTR station on 7/21/2019.
I want to highlight
@StandNewsHK
iconic report on the Yuen Long attack because it makes it clear how far HK press freedoms have fallen, the reporter filming
@KwaiLamHo
is in jail, Stand News is gone, and this livestream is about to be deleted from their website forever
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Sharing this classic since I'm already seeing a number of "Gong xi fa cai" Tweets on my Timeline...
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A reminder that M+ has works like Liu Heung-shing's "1989 Beijing_Couple Hiding Under the Bridge" in its collection -- and that while they are not on public display, they are on its website.
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@thumbelulu
"when I was in HK, there was an overwhelming amount of Mandarin (on subways and other public announcements)": You DO realise, right that "subway" and public announcements in Hong Kong are made in Cantonese, English and Mandarin?!
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1/ Three years ago today, some 1 million Hongkongers went out on the streets to show our opposition to a planned extradition bill. We began the march from Victoria Park to Admiralty in day time but ended in darkness. Dressed in white (not black), we believed we would overcome...
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It's "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung's 66th birthday today. I wish the veteran activist wasn't behind bars so that he could celebrate it with friends and family. So, here's wishing him a happy birthday, and that Hong Kong would free all of its political prisoners.
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When there are stalls that operate on a trust system, complete with honesty box, still in the city, you know that Hong Kong is: a) not entirely f**ked up; and b) really not "just another Chinese city".
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Many people know about "Tank Man" but have never seen this wide shot of him that shows not only his great courage but the great number of tanks sent in to clear Tiananmen Square. And even more people don't know that this particular photo was taken by a Hongkonger: Sin Wai-keung.
But this photo by Sin Wai Keung, which I was unaware of when I wrote the story in 2009, is just incredible. The scale is breathtaking - it feels like one man is taking on an entire army. I'll share more on this one in the future (working on a film 🙏🏻)...
#TiananmenSquareMassacre
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I took a friend who will be leaving Hong Kong later this month on a hike yesterday. She had told me she'd like to see Stanley one more time. So... and yes, Hong Kong is so beautiful and we really f**king love Hong Kong. (And yes, she expects to be bawling on the plane out.)🥲
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From June 12th, 2019. The message remains relevant three years on. (More than BTW, I was glad to see it feature in Kiwi Chow's "Revolution of Our Times".)
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Of course they'd like us to forget what happened three years ago today in Yuen Long and have gone all out to cover up graffiti like this. But we remember. And call it a small thing but I, who normally wear white on hot summer days, can't bring myself to do so each 7.21 since.
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"Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung in his element, and as I remember him. Thinking of him today, his 67th birthday -- the third consecutive one he's now spent behind bars thanks to being one of the Hong Kong 47.
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John Lee wants to get people associating "Glory to Hong Kong" with violent protests. Here's the reality for the record. (For those who didn't realise: "Sing with you" protests at malls were a thing -- a big thing, in fact.)
“Glory to Hong Kong” rings out inside the MOKO shopping mall. A banner with the same message is also unfurled
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Allan Zeman and co may go on about how Lan Kwai Fong's doing better these days, etc. But just consider that the large billboard in a prominent part of it has no ad on it and the 7-Eleven nearby has not survived and you know that this "nightlife district"'s not doing well at all.
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1/ Just a small part of the 2 million (+1) people who turned out to march because they really f**king loved Hong Kong on June 16th, 2019. And because we (still) believed (then) that large-scale peaceful protests could make a positive difference.🥲
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@faizalhamssin
Malaysia is the only country I've lived in where I didn't use public transportation. When I say it has worse public transportation than Tanzania (the 2nd poorest country in the world when I was there) and the (East Coast of the) USA, believe me that that's really saying a lot!
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Three years ago today in Sai Wan Ho. I hope that Chow Pak-kwan is doing okay. And yeah, I still find unjust that a young man who tried to help another not only ended up being shot by a cop and having a kidney and part of his liver removed but sent to prison for his "sins" too.
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1/ Three years ago today, I got overwhelming proof that the majority of Hongkongers really care for their city and their fellow Hongkongers, and were willing to give lots of sweat and tears -- and blood, too, as we'd come to see on other, sadder days -- to show this if need be...
This is what two million people marching looks like speeded up. Three years ago on
#June16
probably the largest single-day single-location protest anywhere in modern history took place in
#HongKong
. The
#freedom
&
#democracy
we were fighting for then we’re still fighting for now.
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View from a Hong Kong bus. The views are just one reason why taking a bus beats taking the MTR as far as I'm concerned. And yes, am going to state it again: Hong Kong is really beautiful, and I (still) really f**king love Hong Kong! Have a good rest of the weekend, people!
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A reminder as to who "the woman" mentioned is: Agnes Chow Ting -- a Hongkonger who became an activist at age 15; was the spokesperson of Scholarism and a leading member of Demosisto; and was imprisoned in a maximum security prison while still in her 20s. And what she looks like.
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1/ Chris Patten: “When Chinese leaders said Hong Kong could remain itself for 50 years after 1997, ...[I wonder] whether they knew what it was in the first place... I think they thought that Hong Kong was just about allowing people to become rich.”
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January 2008. Nathan Road, Hong Kong. A non-photo shopped photo from my photo archive.🥲
香港製造［霓虹招牌］
霓虹招牌（Neon Sign）原本係西方嘅產物，喺香港昔日大眾接觸到嘅外來技術，香港將呢種技術容入同埋再加入本地嘅元素。當年無論大小公司都用佢嚟做宣傳方式，數量喺1980年代至1990年代就去到最高峰。
圖：Keith Macgregor（photoshopped）修飾相片
香港製造。廣東話資料館
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Lion Rock in December 2014. Nine years on, Hongkongers still want genuine (not fake) universal suffrage -- and have let the world know that once again.
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Yes, I'm still in Hong Kong, I (still) think there is beauty to be found here, and I still really f**king love this part of the world.
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"Celebrate their mother!" Seen on October 1st, 2019, and a sentiment that many continue to feel three years on.
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All power to the Georgians but Hong Kong's 2 million (+1) march on June 16th, 2019 meant that some 2 out of 7 (~28%) of Hongkongers were out on the street that day.
15% of Georgian population was in the streets tonight.
15%.
In relative terms, this is the largest mobilization I heard or read of in human memory.
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Four years ago today. 1.7 million people. Lots of rain. A reminder: mega marches/rallies in Hong Kong in 2019 did not just occur in June. Also, that people went out in pouring rain as well as high heat. And that we who really f**king love Hong Kong were and are the majority here.
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Note that the news was broken by Japanese, not Hong Kong, media; with the South China Morning Post either not knowing or choosing not to divulge what's going on with a journalist in their pay -- and that it's taken a month for the news to break. Disturbing, to say the least.
Japan's Kyodo News reports that SCMP journalist Minnie Chan has been unreachable since November 1, with the company saying she has been on leave without elaborating.
Chan covers security issues and attended the Beijing Xiangshan forum from October 29 to 31.
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On International Women's Day 2022, let's remember some of the women who are currently political prisoners in Hong Kong, including (clockwise from top left in the pics): Gwyneth Ho, Chow Hang-tung, Claudia Mo, and Tiffany Yuen. And, newly rejoining them behind bars, Winnie Yu. 😢
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Times Square early yesterday evening. And no, it was not raining -- so it wasn't as though a thunderstorm (or floods or a typhoon) was responsible for keeping the crowds away.
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1/ Five years ago today was a sunny day but the umbrellas were still out nonetheless...
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Four years on, I still remember the shock and horror I felt on June 12th, 2019. Great 🧵👇 re that sad day. The only thing I want to add, as someone who's inhaled my share of tear gas, is my thanks to the volunteer medics who were there on that fateful day (and so many others).
On 12th June 2019, HKPF fired ~150 tear gas canisters, 20 beanbag rounds & several rubber bullets on what started out as a peaceful protest/'picnic'. This was nearly 2x the projectiles they fired during the *whole* of the Umbrella Movement in 2014.
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Timeline cleanse. It can sometimes hurt to do so but damn it all, I still really f**king love Hong Kong.
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A woman of courage and principle that, in many other parts of the world, would be celebrated. not jailed.
香港人權律師、勞權倡議者 #鄒幸彤 是維多利亞公園六四燭光晚會的籌劃人之一。她和其他支聯會的核心成員僅因紀念1989年 #天安門鎮壓事件 就遭到針對，被捕後被控 #煽動顛覆。立刻提筆寫信並加入全球連署，要求香港政府：立即撤銷針對鄒幸彤的指控並釋放她，她不該僅因和平行使人權就遭受指控！
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Meanwhile, I remain upset that: Hong Kong did NOT close its borders in early 2020 (like people were urging the government to do so); and that people outside of East Asia absolutely wouldn't believe that Covid would impact/get to them for MONTHS.
*Photo from 8th February, 2020
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2/ Pic from Stand News. "The march embraced all who elevated principle over pragmatism, hope over experience. The moment was a triumph of idealism from a people long stereotyped by their colonial masters as motivated only by the pursuit of money...
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Agnes Chow turns 27 today. Hope she's doing okay... (A reminder: she was officially released from prison on June 12th, 2021. Like with Edward Leung Tin-kei, who was officially released from prison on January 19th, 2022, she's probably less free than we'd wish for her to be.😔)
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1/ A sad but all too familiar scene in national security law-era Hong Kong.
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1/ A reminder that books by Lu Xun have been removed from Hong Kong public libraries. And that septuagenarian activist "Grandpa" Chan Ki-kau was arrested for displaying quotes by Lu Xun up on Lion Rock just last month.
This is the problem that authoritarian states like China face: they legitimize themselves by adopting great thinkers like Lu Xun. But when you read Lu Xun, you realize he'd be persecuted in today's China. This Halloween costume in Shanghai perfectly illustrates this dilemma.
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Not in Hong Kong public libraries but there remain copies in the hands of Hongkongers...
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A reminder that the 4K restored version of "A City of Sadness", Hou Hsiao-hsien's epic film about a family embroiled in the "White Terror", is still in Hong Kong cinemas. (Its theatrical run here back in April 2023. I guess its story has really resonated with people here. 🤔)
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Two years ago today, Hong Kong saw a high turn out and record-breaking wins for pro-democracy candidates at the District Council elections. The "silent majority" spoke, and was far more pro-democracy than the authorities had realized. Never forget that. The authorities won't.
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Four years ago today. The first anti-extradition bill protest I attended. (There also was one in March that wasn't as well publicised). Estimated attendance numbers go from a low 22,000 from the police to 130,000 by the march organisers. I'm inclined to believe the latter more.
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Lunch today at Ivan the Kozak, an Ukranian restaurant that's a member of the
#YellowEconomicCircle
. 💪
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Asia's World City on June 30th, 2023 -- and, I think it's safe to assume that this is a sight that you'll see on July 1st too. Sadly, it's become an all too familiar sight for Hongkongers. Some tourists looked somewhat discomfited by the sight though. Hello Hong Kong? 🙄
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Re those idiots saying my Tweet about Gwyneth Ho consists of lies, etc.: they obviously are unaware that many of us watched Gwyneth Ho's livestream that fateful night. We know what we saw, and we saw it thanks to Gwyneth and the others who recorded what happened for posterity.
On Press Freedom Day, I wish to pay tribute to Gwyneth Ho. One of Hong Kong's political prisoners (she was among the 47 arrested on 2/28/2021, and has been denied bail all this time), she was the Stand News journalist who reported live from Yuen Long MTR station on 7/21/2019.
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I think this bus's livery might be a good representation of Hong Kong people's true political colours.😝
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Make sure to watch this with the sound ON. Also, this particular footage may have been broadcast on TVB but trust me when I say that this was seen by much of the world. E.g., I saw this/similar footage in London on the BBC and ITV in the summer of 1989. We will never forget.
As we are approaching June 4th, let us remind ourselves how China denies the Tiananmen Square massacre, where troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators with no remorse. Till this day an average wumao will say "nothing happened".
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And its founder, Winnie Yu, remains behind bars. One of the 47 people arrested on February 28th, 2021, for having taken part in democratic primary elections; the majority of whom have been denied bail and behind bars for over 2 years now.😢
Hospital Authority Employees Alliance, once the largest new Labour Union formed after 2019
#HongKongProtests
and led a successful strike, dissolved on March 24th
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Whenever a Tweet of mine gets past the 100 "Likes" mark, this kind of thing will happen... Even when the Tweets are not political.🙄
BTW, I still am in Hong Kong. And if that pro-Beijinger does live here (like (s)he claims), (s)he must not go out much/be very observant.
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I'm getting horror show vibes from this... and not just thanks to the awful poster.
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Hong Kong, 2023. Some people have moved on but others have not. Five demands...
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Ding Zilin was a Philosophy professor at the People's University and a Chinese Communist Party member. The mother of Jiang Jielian, who was shot and killed on June 3rd, 1989, the courageous now 86 year old is the leader of the Tiananmen Mothers group.
"I lost my son".
Ding Zilin, from the documentary film "The Gate of Heavenly Peace".
For June 4. #六四34
#Tiananmen
#天安門事件
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When I see the word "riots" used by someone with regards to Hong Kong protests which took place in 2019-2020, I automatically assume they are either paid or brainwashed by the CCP -- and did not personally witness any of what was going on in Hong Kong then.
As an ordinary Hongkonger, I took part in numerous protests (organised some small ones on Chinese HRDs) in Hong Kong. Don’t follow CCP and HK govt’s terminology. Not riots, even including the 2019 ones. 官逼民反. People reacted to authoritarian regimes. Not riots. Period.
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Avery Ng Man-yuen's turned 44 while in prison today. One of Hong Kong's way too many political prisoners, the former Chairman of the League of Social Democrats is one of those folks I reckon tankies would be shocked to realize is a leftist as well as pro-democracy politician!
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A reminder that, amidst it all, Hong Kong is really beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that one might want to break into song to express how glorious it is... 🎶
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I would love for Chung Pui-kuen's name and deeds to become as well known internationally as Jimmy Lai's.
(An earlier Tweet failed to attract a single Like. Let's see if adding a photo of Chung helps.)
when i was chief editor of CUHK student press, Chung was a legendary former editor. he's always in the forefront of the annual 64 protest, anti-Iraq War protest, etc. he later got some well paid jobs, then left them for the Stand News job. a guy of principle and integrity
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This is the Elizabeth Tang who was arrested outside Stanley Prison, where she had gone to visit her political prisoner husband, Lee Cheuk-yan (who's one of 6 Hongkongers nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize). Her passport, mobile phone and bank cards are being kept by the police.
Press release:
Hongkonger Elizabeth Tang receives prize in absentia for her decades-spanning efforts to promote rights of domestic workers.
Statement by Espen Løken on the award committee's choice:
@IDWFED
@IndustriEnergi
@MarteMP
@JordaniaUrena04
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Hello friends, I'm back! And yes, I still think Hong Kong is really beautiful...
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A view of Hong Kong that only hikers are privy to -- and those who view their photos.😆
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Hong Kong is really beautiful and it threatens to break my heart that so many people who really f**king love Hong Kong can't (safely) be here. Still, keep on hoping and never forget how wonderful Hong Kong can be! Ga yau!
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I managed to get a copy of
@limlouisa
's latest tome and thought it'd be good to commemorate my doing so with a photo in an appropriate Hong Kong location.
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Three years ago today, I took part in a protest march against the China extradition bill. Many of us in the estimated +130,000 crowd held up yellow umbrellas and sang "Do you hear the people sing?" We still believed then that the authorities might listen to us and care...🥲
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And I think of this often... There are many lessons from 2019 we really ought not to forget.
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It's been really mindboggling in recent days to alternately see posts where US protestors are using what could be described as Hong Kong-style tactics against the police (E.g., "Be water") and other USians are writing "ImAgInE iF tHiS hApPenEd iN IrAn , ChInA or RuSsIa!!!!!"...
"ImAgInE iF tHiS hApPenEd iN IrAn , ChInA or RuSsIa!!!!!" literally shut your fucking mouth
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A good time to remind people what the "Five demands (not one less)" that Hong Kong protestors were demanding. Also, for "Hong Kong riot(er)s", the year to look at would be 1967, not 2019-2020.
In case there was any doubt as to the official narrative of the 2019 HK protest movement, that entire period of history has become merely: “a series of riots that occurred in Hong Kong from June 2019 to February 2020”
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Imprisoned. Handcuffed. Watched over by guards. But still she fights for justice, and smiles. In a just society, people like Chow Hang-tung would be free and be hailed as exemplars. As it is, she is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee but behind bars in Hong Kong.
Smile. Ming Pao’s photo of 鄒幸彤 Ms Tonyee Chow Hang-Tung.
Hong Kong’s gutsiest hero who deserves all our support.
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1/ Something many people outside of Hong Kong (still) don't seem to realise: People went on protest marches because Hong Kon didn't have democracy but they still felt the government would listen to +500k people. But when Carrie Lam didn't listen on June 9 and then 16, 2019... 😔
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This. And I will NEVER forget her making it sound like little girls in Hong Kong could grow up never thinking there are any female filmmakers, with the implication that they don't exist in the city -- the city whose most critically acclaimed filmmaker is Ann Hui.
@FY4Chan
tens of millions of people still speak cantonese and she could be promoting the HK film industry's many outputs but instead she wants to make it sound like it's on its last legs so she can feel like a hero for inserting little bits and pieces of canto dialogue into her show
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Four years ago at Edinburgh Place. When "Do You Hear the People Sing?" was the protest song of choice. And it was on June 26th, 2019, that I first heard the fifth demand added to the other ones: for genuine universal suffrage (which is most associated with the Umbrella Movement).
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1/ Four years ago, strangers stood together and held hands to form the Hong Kong Way. We also chatted with each other, sang along together -- this being pre "Glory to Hong Kong", the song of choice was "Do You Hear the People Sing?" In so doing, we connected and forged bonds...
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Outsiders (or the plain less observant) think that Hong Kong resistance is dead but we know we are the majority and still very much around if you know how -- as well as where -- to look...
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Apparently, Hong Kong looks so American that US media can mistake Sheung Wan as part of an American city. (Shame on the US photo editor who didn't notice the cars driving on the left side of the road in the pic, among other things!)
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Those keyrings are 🔥💛
Greetings from the London Mid-Autumn Festival Fair 英倫中秋聚! Where you can buy a Hong Kong keyring, eat a moon cake and get yourself a haircut in a church.
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The thing about a “return to normalcy” is that normal sucked balls. Covid exposed all the cracks and fissures in our society that were always there. It seems the folks who crave normalcy want to cover up those cracks and go back to pretending they’re not. It’s infuriating.
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A ride on the Star Ferry this evening reconfirmed my conviction that Hong Kong is very beautiful and I really f**king love Hong Kong. Have a good weekend, people!
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A wall in Hong Kong. Not blank at all but, rather, one that speaks to me of a still ongoing battle between those who seek freedom (of expression, etc.) and those who seek to censor and repress.
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1/ Many years ago at college, I befriended a Mainland Chinese woman who, upon noting that I loved playing football very much, told me: "You should never love something too much." She then told me that when she was young, she used to love to play the violin...
56 years ago May 1966: Mao unleashed the gates of 10 years of hell on his country with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, designed to purge traditional culture and bourgeois elements from society leading to out-of-control violence and breakdown of authority. (photo NYT)
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How long will it be before they cover these quotes over at the Hong Kong Central Library too?
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Er... so... it seems I'm being welcomed back by Twitter (now known as X)???!!!
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"Hong Kong Human Rights Lawyer ‘Chow Hang-Tung: Has been a symbol of courage and hope for the people of Hong Kong despite the yoke of [the] National Security Law".
Chow Hang-tung
@zouxingtong
selected by
@518org
as the winner of the 2023 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights
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This is Chow Hang-tung, who the authorities have tried so hard to prevent us from seeing. Remember her, how she looks, and her winning smile. Know what she has been and is being put through, and that she is still persisting.✊
The final appeal hearing over
#HongKong
#PoliticalPrisoner
#ChowHangTung
"inciting unauthorized assembly" on
#June4
2021
was held at Court of Final Appeal on Wed. Prison authorities went to great lengths to prevent the public from seeing Chow go from prison van to courthouse.
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The oldest surviving market building in Hong Kong. I wish it was put to better use. Has anyone actually bought anything from any of the shops or eaten at one of the eateries located there?
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"Xi Jinping and his closest advisers do not know much about the economy... They know very little about international trade, international finance, etc. They are mostly party apparatchiks who specialize in ideology ... propaganda. Most of them do not speak English" -- Willy Lam.
My latest:
#China
's
#economy
unlikely to recover anytime soon because President Xi Jinping's inner circle is mostly filled with apparatchiks rather than technocrats with know-how to revive sagging growth: China expert Willy Lam
Thread
via
@NikkeiAsia
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A section of the city that gets me thinking that Hong Kong is really beautiful. I wonder whether Mainland Chinese tourists who pass by do pause to admire and take photos of it (too) -- and of so, what they make of the "Ideas Are Bulletproof" sign over Mount Zero's doorway.
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Relatedly: whenever you see a grayed out/covered spot in Hong Kong (on the road, wall, etc.), consider that it's probably a protest slogan/message (not just "regular" graffiti). And when you realise how many of them there are all over the city, recognise that we are the majority!
You know, there is graffiti all over Hong Kong that goes unprosecuted – and rightfully so, because it's a minor thing that's not worth the effort to launch a majnor investigation.
So this ain't about vandalism, is what I'm saying.
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