23 Dec 2021

“This is a symbolically important move, which fits in with so many other sad recent ones, such as campus democracy walls being stripped of posters. There is a recurring theme of disappearances; of objects from campuses and disappearances of people into prisons or exile. What is disappearing in the process - or at least diminishing dramatically, as there are still contrasts - is the sense of Hong Kong universities as radically unlike mainland ones.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/...
Type of Source: News

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

   Historian, Author

Author of the book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, and a historian of modern China at the University of California, Irvine

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Hong Kong and democracy

Statue mourning people killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests removed from University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus

The statue Pillar of Shame by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt removed from University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus