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Passing the Torch of June Fourth: Demanding Accountability for the Past, Claiming a Democratic Future
In May-June 2009, in Hong Kong, students and artists in their late-teens and early-20s organized the P-at-Riot: June Fourth Festival for the Post-80s Generation (80後六四文化祭)—a cultural festival commemorating the 1989 Democracy Movement in China and paying tribute to the victims of the subsequent...
December 21, 2012
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Hong Kong & Mainland China: Building a Shared Future, select resources
Official Documents The Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong (Joint Declaration) [中英关于香港问题的联合声明]
February 2, 2012
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Book Review: Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong
Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong Christine Loh Hong Kong University Press July 2010 (HC), February 2011 (PB) Hardcover & paperback: 372 pages When Christine Loh was a little girl growing up in Hong Kong, she had a fascination with the Communist Party of China (CPC),...
February 1, 2012
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Who’s Afraid of China? Not Hong Kong
The early morning of April 10, 2011, was not quiet for long in Hong Kong’s Western District as people began to congregate in front of the police station there. Activists unrolled large green and white banners in Chinese and English.
February 1, 2012
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Charting the Flows
Number of Visitors to Hong Kong 2000–2010 Purpose of Visit for Overnight Mainland Visitors to Hong Kong in 2010
February 1, 2012
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Lee Cheuk Yan on Hong Kong as a Cherished Space
Sharon Hom : I would like to start with a question about the genesis of the idea to organize a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park. When was it first organized? Who were the conveners? What were the goals?
February 1, 2012
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Crossing Borders: A Conversation with Three Mainland Women Immigrants
Since 1997, an estimated 217,000 mainlanders have immigrated to Hong Kong. They are sometimes called the “new immigrants, ” as distinct from those who came from the mainland when the city was under British rule. Currently, the HKSAR government permits 150 mainlanders per day to become permanent...
February 1, 2012
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HRIC Hong Kong Roundtable Discussion Part Two
Bao Pu (New Century Press) : There is one contrasting example of record keeping in the mainland. We were just working on a book on Mao’s great famine. A Hong Kong scholar went to dozens of archives on the mainland at the central and provincial levels. He was able to get meticulously-kept records of...
February 1, 2012
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Unexpected Opportunities for NGO Work
There are two main points I would like to make, which are based on my own experience in running an en
February 1, 2012
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The Power of Archives in Human Rights Advocacy
Perhaps you all have read about the following story that happened in Guatemala. During the 36-year civil war that ended in 1996, thousands and thousands of people had been executed, and made to disappear by the national secret police. For years, human rights advocates had tried to nail down those...
February 1, 2012
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