Ground Zero at "Rioters' University": Resistance and Crackdown at Chinese University of Hong Kong before and after the National Security Law
Department: Center for Asian Studies
Date and Time: January 6, 2022 | 4:00 PM-5:30 PMEvent Location: Zoom Webinar
Event Details
Center for Asian Studies
Co-sponsored by Global Hong Kong Studies @ University of California
Ground Zero at "Rioters' University": Resistance and Crackdown at Chinese University of Hong Kong before and after the National Security Law
Speaker
Daniel C. Tsang
Thursday, January 6, 2022, 4 pm PST
Zoom Webinar Registration Link:
https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wcZndszmTfm3J7JI027p7Q
By the time Hong Kong police raided CUHK campus in November 2019, student protesters were proud to label the school “Rioters' University.” But the subsequent crackdown led to the disbanding of the Hong Kong-America Center, based at CUHK, the dissolution of the student union, and arrests and imprisonment of student protesters. The renowned Universities Service Centre for China Studies also has shut down and its collection merged with the campus library. The speaker provides an eyewitness account and analysis.
Hong Kong-born Daniel C. Tsang is Librarian Emeritus at UC Irvine and one of the last Fulbright Research Scholars in Hong Kong, where he researched endangered protest culture and artifacts. He also lived on CUHK campus during the height of the campus revolt in 2019. His reporting, interviews or op eds on Hong Kong have appeared in Far Eastern Economic Review, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Review of Books and Hong Kong Free Press, as well as on KUCI's Subversity Show.