![]() ![]() This move, an attempt by Beijing to reform Hong Kong’s syllabus in line with national norms, was widely expected to be a propaganda exercise. Hong Kong and Joshua WongĪlthough (as indicated above) relatively light-hearted at times, Wong’s Unfree Speech constitutes equal parts personal biography and careful analysis of Hong Kong’s current political moment, detailing a city’s fight to maintain and extend its freedom of expression in the face of an increasingly assertive Beijing.Īs a high-schooler, Joshua Wong and his friends set up Scholarism in order to oppose National Education in 2012. The unanimous passage of Beijing’s National Security Law on 30th June poses questions as to whether a revised edition of this work may instead reference The Revenge of the Sith. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finalising his book on 9th December 2019, Joshua Wong chose a typically modern metaphor to describe his travails since release from prison in 2017, “If I were to liken our epic struggle for freedom and democracy to the original Star Wars trilogy, then the two years since by imprisonment would be a drawn-out version of the middle instalment, The Empire Strikes Back”. ![]()
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