The Die Is Cast
The Die Is Cast

Author: Hong Kong Journalists Association

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 9781870798884

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The die is cast: freedom of expression in Hong Kong on the eve of the handover to China / Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) and Article 19.

Political Censorship in British Hong Kong
Political Censorship in British Hong Kong

Author: Michael Ng

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-04

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1108904831

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Drawing on archival materials, Michael Ng challenges the widely accepted narrative that freedom of expression in Hong Kong is a legacy of British rule of law. Demonstrating that the media and schools were pervasively censored for much of the colonial period and only liberated at a very late stage of British rule, this book complicates our understanding of how Hong Kong came to be a city that championed free speech by the late 1990s. With extensive use of primary sources, the free press, freedom of speech and judicial independence are all revealed to be products of Britain's China strategy. Ng shows that, from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, Hong Kong's legal history was deeply affected by China's relations with world powers. Demonstrating that Hong Kong's freedoms drifted along waves of change in global politics, this book offers a new perspective on the British legal regime in Hong Kong.

Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

Author: Jan Currie

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Jan Currie, Carole J. Petersen, and Ka Ho Mok draw upon interviews with academics and university administrators to examine two historical incidents that led to a strengthening of academic freedom in Hong Kong, as well as to legal and political ramifications that continue to re...

Hong Kong Media
Hong Kong Media

Author: Chi Kit Chan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 9811918201

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This book explores the challenges to news professionalism and media autonomy stemming from the state, market pressure, the digitalization of communication, and a polarized civil society in Hong Kong. China is tightening its control over post-handover Hong Kong, which includes press freedom. Harsh market competition, coupled with shifting readership from mainstream media to digital platforms, is squeezing the business viability of media organizations. The polarization of civil society in post-handover Hong Kong had degraded consensual values upon which news professionalism relies. Journalists have had to reorient news professionalism and media power in the midst of state-society tension, market pressure, and the shifting communication mode driven by digitalization. These are the key questions for Hong Kong media. This dynamic intervention will be of interest to journalists, scholars of civil society, and scholars of Asian politics.

Freedom
Freedom

Author: Nathan Law

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2021-11-04

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1473597056

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'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow 'In Freedom, Nathan Law paints a deeply personal portrait of sheer courage... An essential and timely read.' - Speaker Nancy Pelosi What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are? Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind. He remembers what it is like to lack freedom - and his father's precarious three-day escape from China in a small rowing boat. When authoritarianism makes gains around the world, demanding our silence as the price of doing business, it poses a challenge to democracy everywhere. In this passionate rallying cry, Law argues that we must defend our freedom now or face losing it for ever. 'Now we all need to stand firm to defend our freedoms, to ensure truth is not determined by dictators. We are born free and as equals. As long as we believe in that, no one can take it away from us.'

Freedom of Expression in Hong Kong
Freedom of Expression in Hong Kong

Author: The Hong Kong Journalists Association and Article 19

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Freedom of Expression in Hong Kong : 1994 Annual Report / The Hong Kong Journalists Association and Article 19.