Magazine article

https://cuny-cc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CUNY_CC/qlf695/cdi_gale_lrcgauss_A610282066

This magazine article, “The Act of Protest” by Jiayang Fan from The New Yorker, is about the author’s experience during the Hong Kong protests. She begins talking about a play titled “The first and second half of 2047”, performed at City Hall. This play is a semi-documentary by director Wu Hoi Fai in which many of the actors are university students who also take part in protest marches. She attends multiple rallies herself  where she notes the difference between daytime rallies and nighttime ones. She also visits various places, like one of the multiple Lennon Walls that have sprung up around the city and interviews multiple people with different opinions about the protests.

Journal article

https://cuny-cc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CUNY_CC/qlf695/cdi_jstor_primary_26838911

This journal article, “Hong Kong’s Summer of Uprising: From Anti-Extradition to Anti-Authoritarian” from China Review, is a study that describes the origins and characteristics of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement. It uses data collected from onsite surveys and population surveys during a three-month period from June 2019 to August 2019. The study uses graphs to illustrate the demographics of protesters, motivations, means of participation and identification with slogans used. A comparison between these current protests and the Umbrella movement from 2014 reveal that the failed 79-day occupation helped shaped protesters motivations, structure and strategy in the present.

Newspaper article

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-one-year-later.html

This newspaper article, “Hong Kong Protests, One Year Later” by Austin Ramzy and Mike Ives from The New York Times, illustrates some of the key moments of this pro-democracy movement that began in early June of last year. In the course of a year, clashes between protesters and the police have become a common occurrence. The legislature of Hong Kong, university campuses, subway systems including trains, and commercial centers have all been battlegrounds of these hostile encounters at least once. A ban on face masks, new national security laws and for the first time in 30 years, a ban on the Tiananmen Square vigil, have all been met with mutiny by Hongkongers. Although the pandemic has ceased some of these demonstrations at the beginning of this year, since spring, more have been reemerging.

Web source

https://time.com/5606212/hong-kong-history-mass-demonstrations-protest/

This article, “A Brief History of Protest in Post-Handover Hong Kong” by Amy Gunia from Time, shows Hong Kong’s history of battles for democracy. For over 2 decades, Hong Kong has struggled with China’s attempts at limiting their freedoms and restricting their civil liberties. From aiming to control Hong Kong’s electoral system, educational system, and even their culture, Hongkongers have expressed their discontent every time. Protests that have ensued from these grievances have had its successes and failures. China’s efforts of distorting history and influencing the younger generations, was halted. The proposal of universal suffrage in Hong Kong’s electoral system has long been, and still is, a demand of Hongkongers.