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Sep 21

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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 Hong Kong organised a public hunger strike to oppose new ‘national and moral education’ classes – dismissing them as a form of brainwash. More protesters joined them, including a 63 year old teacher, attracting considerable attention from Hong Kong citizens and the media. After ten days of protest, and hundreds of thousands of supporters attending a wide range of events, the government finally made concessions, proposing to no longer make these classes compulsory, but leaving schools to decide whether they should be implemented.

1510, in collaboration with the news website CoChina, published a special magazine issue on this event. This week’s post proposes to follow the course of events presented in that issue, and a text engaging the questions raised by mainland Chinese internet users regarding the events. Read more

Aug 27

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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 to lose a venue that has been many things to many people over its ten-month lifespan: a public platform for political change, a shelter for the homeless, a community center, an eyesore.

Read from the bottom up to follow Danwei’s live coverage of the coda to the longest-lived Occupy encampment in Asia. Read more

Aug 22

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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 and vocally anti-capitalist. But as their numbers dwindled, homeless people — the bottom 1% of the 99% — also began inhabiting the plaza. Read more

Aug 4

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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 China. Follow him on Twitter here. Read more

Jul 27

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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 week’s digest echoes some of the discussions exchanged on this platform. For more on the Beijing floods you can read this post on danwei.

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Jul 9

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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 Republic of China, and the beginning of Leung Chun Ying’s term at the head of the SAR. On this occasion, My1510.cn published a number of blog posts about the relationship between Hong Kong and Mainland China. Read more

Jul 6

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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. Read more

Apr 26

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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.”

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Apr 12

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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 and people strongly support the CPC Central Committee’s decision to investigate Bo Xilai, the charismatic former Party head of Chongqing who was recently ousted, and his possible connection to the suspected murder of Englishman Neil Heywood.

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Sep 28

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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: Read more