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Hong Kong, Add Oil! : The Lennon Walls in the 2019 Hong Kong Movement

Contexts by Yao-Tai Li and John Chung-En Liu | April 4, 2021 | Winter 2021   A Lennon Wall in a metro station. (Photo by Yao-Tai Li) In June 2019, millions poured onto the streets of Hong Kong to protest the proposed Extradition Bill. Citizens and organizations argued that the purpose of the law is to provide a legal way for the Chinese government to extradite dissidents to mainland China for trial. According to Purbrick, police used increasing levels of force (tear gas, water cannon) to quell the protestors. The perceived police brutality, however, further added fuel to the movement. In her 2020 work, Jackson states that these protests reignited tensions over Hong Kong’s political and cultural identity. According to Chan, Pun, and Lee et al., the movement is regarded as a pro-democracy movement by scholars. The Chinese government and media, however, often portray the movement as being anti-China and

The Hong Kong film-makers living in fear

A pro-democracy activist takes part in protests in Hong Kong, November 2014 Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images In the new Hollywood blockbuster Godzilla vs Kong, Hong Kong becomes the scene of an epic final battle against a monster that threatens to destroy the world. The skyscrapers of the city are reduced to rubble as King Kong slugs it out with the awoken colossus. Though the film wasn’t made by Hong Kong film-makers, it feels symbolic. In the week of its release, a sense of dread increased among the 7.5 million citizens of the territory, as they learned that the legal and governmental independence promised to them for 50 years after the handover of the prosperous British colony to China in 1997 was being dismantled ever more quickly.

Reset to rivalry: China and the West drift further apart

Reset to rivalry: China and the West drift further apart
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