From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: Hong Kong used to be seen as cautious, pragmatic and materialistic. But protests have transformed the city. As Beijing tightens its grip, how much longer can the movement survive?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:16.6	The Guardian Archive Long Read.
1:27.7	I'm Tanya Branigan, I'm foreign leader writer at The Guardian and I'm the co-author of How Hong Kong
1:34.3	in court fire, the story of a radical uprising, first published in June 2020.
1:40.3	I spent seven years as the Guardian's China correspondent based in Beijing and it was always
1:46.0	very obvious that the promise that Beijing made that Hong Kong's freedoms and way of life
1:51.8	would be maintained until 2047, after the handover just wasn't going to be maintained that
1:58.8	that wasn't going to happen. We saw this eating away really of its autonomy in ways large and small.
2:06.0	But we were always told not just by outsiders but actually Hong Kong people themselves that it was
2:12.0	a political place that people were conservative, that they were apathetic, that those people who
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