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Interview – In-depth analysis of the Hong Kong security law and its implications

28th September 2020 / Vivienne Bath / China, Hong Kong

On June 30, the most powerful part of the Chinese government, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, passed, with immediate effect, the Law for Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The Hong Kong National Security Law follows ongoing independence and pro-democracy protests, which in the second half of […]

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Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese Rule

16th August 2019 / Isabella NG / ASAA books, Gender and sexuality, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese Rule has recently been published by Routledge as part of the Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Women in Asia Series. Hong Kong has been undergoing unprecedented pandemonium since June 2019. Protests and rallies that very often ended in physical confrontation and violence are happening from weekly to a

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Hong Kong twenty years on: reasons to be cheerful

18th August 2017 / Kerry Brown / Hong Kong

A new mindset seems to be emerging from Beijing and it has increased anxiety levels in Hong Kong, but it is too early to write off the resilience of the Hong Kongese, writes Kerry Brown Twenty years after the handover from British to Chinese sovereignty there seems nothing but perpetual gloom in the Hong Kong.

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The end of CY Leung

15th December 2016 / Kerry Brown / Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s embattled leader CY Leung, who has announced he won’t be seeking a second term as chief executive, could not have foreseen how muscular and categorical the leadership from Beijing would be, writes Kerry Brown. CY Leung, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), was always a slightly unusual occupant of the

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Backflip: Western media suddenly sympathise with Hong Kong separatists

20th November 2016 / Benjamin Garvey / Hong Kong

The Western media have gone from obscuring to exalting Hong Kong separatism, Benjamin Garvey observes. There has been a sudden deluge of Western reporting on Hong Kong separatism over the last six months—and, interestingly, it has been sympathetic. China watchers who rely on mainstream Western media could be forgiven for thinking the Hong Kong Independence

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Hong Kong election shows a city divided and uneasy

7th September 2016 / Kerry Brown / Hong Kong

Hong Kong voters send a strong message to Beijing by electing pro-democracy candidates The elections for the Hong Kong Legislative Council, the Special Administrative Region’s parliament, held over the first weekend of September, confirm some trends that had already been noted, and pose some sharp questions for the city government, but, most importantly, for Beijing.

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Interview – In-depth analysis of the Hong Kong security law and its implications

Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese Rule

Hong Kong twenty years on: reasons to be cheerful

The end of CY Leung

Backflip: Western media suddenly sympathise with Hong Kong separatists

Hong Kong election shows a city divided and uneasy

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