Tag Archives: Hong Kong

Against national education – reflections on the Hong Kong hunger strike

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. In the first week of September 2012, a group of high schools students from … Continue reading

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The end of Occupy Central, Hong Kong

This was a live blog following the countdown to the initial 9pm deadline on August 27 to vacate the HSBC building’s walkthrough. Despite receiving a reprieve–likely a few days–the activists and homeless residents of Occupy Central (占领中环) in Hong Kong still stand … Continue reading

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Six days in Hong Kong’s Occupy Central

28 days after the Occupy Wall Street protests started in New York on 17 September 2011, activists began gathering in the walkthrough plaza underneath the HSBC bank building, in Central district, Hong Kong. The initial group of activists were young … Continue reading

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Photos of Hong Kong’s anti-national education protest

This photo gallery of the anti-national education protest in Hong Kong is by Danwei contributor Hudson C. Lockett IV, a Beijing-based freelance writer and photographer. His last article for Danwei was on ecologist Xie Yan’s fight against bad conservation laws in … Continue reading

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Beijing rainstorms, a revelation for Chinese people

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. After the recent floods in Beijing,1510 opened a special section to cover the topic; this … Continue reading

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How did I develop a Hong Kong addiction?

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. July 1st 2012 marked the 15 year anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the People’s … Continue reading

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Danwei Week: Xi Jinping’s family fortunes and demonstrations in Shifang

This is the Danwei Week, a summary of the most important China stories from the last seven days. We’ll choose a maximum of five topics per week, and try to link to the best coverage of them in English. If this … Continue reading

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At the Beijing Auto Show, one model’s dress is worth more than the costliest of cars

The flashy photo dominating the front page of today’s South Eastern Economic Times shows a scantily-clad model of the type Beijing’s Auto Show is famous for. The headline reads, “This small diamond dress is worth over a hundred million.” Every year, … Continue reading

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People’s Daily: “People must unify their thinking and rally behind the CPC Central Committee”

The People’s Daily , the official mouth-piece of the Communist Part of China, today features an article on its front page headlined: “Consciously maintain the good aspects of reform, development and stability.” The article states that the broad masses of Chinese cadres … Continue reading

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Hong Kong’s dirty little secret

Kristie Hang and Benjamin Gottlieb recently wrote a story for CNN’s website about some members of Hong Kong’s underclass: Hong Kong’s poorest living in ‘coffin homes’ Hidden amid the multi-million dollar high-rise apartments and chic shopping malls of Hong Kong’s … Continue reading

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