The Hong Kong protests: The view from campus
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show, Kaiser chats with Alejandro Reyes, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong and a former senior policy adviser to Canada’s assistant deputy minister for Asia Pacific, about the ongoing Hong Kong protests and the spread of violence to some of Hong Kong’s best-known universities in November. Alejandro offers his take on this phase of the protests, and on how half a year of incessant protests has impacted the mental health of young Hongkongers.
Recommendations:
Alejandro: Talking to my mother about Hong Kong, by SupChina columnist Yangyang Cheng. You can find more of her work here.
Kaiser: The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, by Timothy C. Winegard.
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| 0:55.0 | I'm Kaiser Guo, and I'm coming today from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, just a mile or so |
| 0:59.1 | from my home. Now, we've done a number of shows looking at the protests that broke out in the |
| 1:03.6 | spring of this year in Hong Kong over the proposed extradition law amendment bill, |
| 1:07.7 | protests which have morphed and continued all the way up to the present. |
| 1:11.7 | We've had Anthony Dapperan on to give us a picture of the protests on the ground and to help |
| 1:15.9 | us situate them in the history of protest movements in Hong Kong. |
| 1:19.3 | We've also had Jude Blanchette talking about his conversations with the leaders of this |
| 1:23.2 | nominally leaderless movement and about the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, |
| 1:27.9 | which was passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Trump last month. |
| 1:32.9 | And we've talked to Jerome Cohen, who helped to frame the Hong Kong protests through the lens of the law. |
| 1:38.7 | Today we're going to look at some facets of the protests we haven't really examined yet. |
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