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Are video games making Hong Kong youths delinquents, loners… or better...
By Ming Ming Chiu Contrary to popular belief, playing video games does not make children violent or loners. However, playing single-player video games a lot can increase loneliness and unhappiness. In...
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New research shows vast majority of Hong Kong protesters support more radical...
By Samson Yuen, Lingnan University Three months on, there’s still no end in sight for the Hong Kong protest movement. What started as a demonstration against a bill to amend the city’s extradition laws...
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Is art a viable or impossible career in Hong Kong?
By Ariel Lai, Sarah Ryou and Tommy Yuen “You can’t survive simply by selling art creations, unless you were born in a rich family,” says Jay Lau Ka-chun, a Year Four fine arts student of the Chinese...
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Insurgent tongues: how loose Cantonese romanisation became Hong Kong’s patois...
By Rachel Leung Ka-yin “Gwong Fuk Heung Gong! Si Doi Gark Ming!” If you understand the above slogan, chances are you’re probably a Hong Konger born in the post-80s or 90s. If that did not make any...
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‘My genuine companions’: A woman’s quest to save Hong Kong’s homeless cats
By Cynthia Sit and Sam Kwong An impulsive thought to take a stray cat back home becomes the first step of her life as a cat rescuer. Lisa Olausen’s house is a shelter for stray cats waiting for...
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‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times’ – a legacy from the...
By Joachim Boittout Enunciated, inscribed on banners, spray-painted and chanted—it is hard to avoid the slogan that has sparked the lightning strikes of power in the streets of Hong Kong since this...
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How Hong Kong police trained for riots – and why their response to protesters...
By Carol Anne Goodwin Jones, University of Birmingham Hong Kong’s controversial extradition bill, the catalyst for three months of protests, was officially withdrawn on September 3 by Carrie Lam, Hong...
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In the new Cold War between Beijing and the West, I am a Hongkonger
On August 11, 2019, a girl, acting as a nurse during a demonstration against the extradition bill in Tsim Sha Tsui district in Hong Kong, had her right eye blown out by a beanbag fired by a police...
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As China celebrates 70 years, its rhetoric on ‘dignity and rights’ drifts...
By Dolkun Isa The People’s Republic of China is celebrating 70 years since its founding this week amid triumphant cries of its development miracle, unity, dignity and even rights. While it’s important...
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As one of the world’s most unequal cities, why aren’t Hong Kong protesters...
By Toby Carroll, City University of Hong Kong There have been many explanations for the turmoil in Hong Kong, which is now heading toward its 16th weekend. However, the powerful links between the...
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Protection of ‘traditional marriage’ should not be an excuse for discrimination
By Kamilyn Choi and Jan Wetzel Soon, the Court of First Instance will deliver its judgment in the case of “MK”, a woman asserting that Hong Kong law violates her human rights to privacy and equality by...
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Why safety standards for Hong Kong school buses need to be re-examined
By Alice Wang, Kelly Chen and Daphne Li Road traffic congestion is nothing new in busy Hong Kong every morning. Among the many vehicles flooding the roads across the city are 5,212 school buses...
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‘We fear Hong Kong will become just another Chinese city’: an interview with...
By John Keane, University of Sydney. This exclusive interview with Martin Lee took place in Wan Chai in early September. Martin Lee Chu-ming is affectionately known as the “grandfather of Hong Kong...
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After Xinjiang, the long road to recovery
By Chris Rickleton When Tursynbek Kabiuly arrived in Kazakhstan in February following a 17-month absence enforced by Chinese authorities, he could see the joy on his wife Oralkhan’s face. But unless...
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What China’s May 4th Movement can tell us about Hong Kong protests: listen to...
By Eric Tindall On May 4 1919, several thousand students gathered in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing. Their demand? That formerly-German territories in Shandong be returned to China...
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Myth busted: China’s status as a developing country gives it few benefits in...
By Henry Gao, Singapore Management University and Weihuan Zhou, UNSW Whether China is a “developing” or a “developed” country for the purposes of the World Trade Organisation matters a lot to the US...
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Press freedom watchdog dismisses China’s ’70 Years of Progress on Human...
By Oiwan Lam Ahead of the 70th anniversary of the People Republic of China, the Chinese State Council Information Office issued a white paper on China’s human rights conditions on September 22, 2019....
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Why ‘woke’ NBA is struggling to balance its values with Chinese expansion
By Mary-Hunter McDonnell, University of Pennsylvania It’s not easy being a for-profit organization these days. Take the National Basketball Association. It found itself in a tricky situation in its...
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Why are Hong Kong protests getting more violent? Because justice has been...
By Johnson Yeung I want to tell a story about me and violence. On July 21, I was dragging my body back home at midnight after a long day of protest. I lay in my bed, my partner was asleep, and I...
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They’re waving our flag! Why are US democrats so quiet on Hong Kong?
When I was a graduate student, in the late 1980s, I once argued in class that America was a force for democracy and freedom in the world. Of course, we had betrayed our principles on many occasions,...
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