Is Taiwan Next?
In Taipei, young people like Nancy Tao Chen Ying watched as the Hong Kong protests were brutally extinguished. Now they wonder what’s in their future.
In Taipei, young people like Nancy Tao Chen Ying watched as the Hong Kong protests were brutally extinguished. Now they wonder what’s in their future.
Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 50min Permalink
Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy.
Lauren Hilgers The Atavist Magazine Jul 2020 35min Permalink
A profile of Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive.
Timothy McLaughlin The Atlantic Jun 2020 20min Permalink
Earlier this month, while China's leaders were staging a grandiose celebration of their revolution's 40th birthday, thousands of somber Hong Kong residents gathered for a dreary commemoration of their own. Far from the fireworks display in Beijing, Hong Kongers huddled in a rainstorm near the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, singing patriotic songs and listening to mournful poems dedicated to those who died in Tiananmen Square.
Margaret Scott The New York Times Oct 1989 20min Permalink
After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Dec 2019 35min Permalink
Inside the Hong Kong protests.
Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer Oct 2019 30min Permalink
The city’s radical pro-democracy movement faces a stiff test from Mainland China.
Howard W French The Guardian Mar 2017 20min Permalink
The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.
Theresa Tedesco National Post Sep 2016 15min Permalink
The young people fighting for democracy will be back.
Lauren Hilgers New York Times Magazine Feb 2015 20min Permalink
How a reporter’s assistant got into trouble with Beijing security.
Angela Köckritz Die Zeit Jan 2015 25min Permalink
A man arrives in the US from Hong Kong in search of his mistress; family and medical complications arise.
"At sixty, Boss Yeung had completed what the ancients deemed a full span of life. Now the cycle would start over, and he’d be born again in time to guide his heir, who would conquer China and then the world. He had outlived his father, his grandfather, possibly every male in the long line of ancestors that had led to him. Against his protests, his eldest daughter, Viann, was planning a lavish celebration in Hong Kong, with longevity peach cakes gilded in twenty-four-carat gold flakes and fireworks over the harbor. He wasn’t eager to publicize his age, to give off the impression that he was close to retiring and no longer possessed the fire that had lit the ambitions of his youth."
Vanessa Hua Guernica Dec 2014 Permalink
Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong tabloid tycoon, thinks he’s found the future of journalism: an animation assembly line that can crank out clips recreating–or anticipating, or imagining–breaking news.
Michael Kaplan Wired Aug 2010 20min Permalink