Heartaches. NYTimes: “Crackdown on Protests” Live feed on Reddit #OccupyHK * [Oct 4] Earlier in the week I wrote something about HK, it’s in The Rumpus. Doesn’t articulate everything I am trying to sort out, but it is a piece of it. [Oct 16] “Umbrella/Shield Poetics”: more processing on the HK protests at the Kundiman […]
Tag Archives: Hong Kong
notes
For example: “Class struggle” is codified differently within particular historical/cultural contexts. In China, or among those who left (escaped) during the Cultural Revolution, it means Mao and the Red Guards, a corrupt government, a widespread trauma. As a child, “Communism” was only ever a terrible Evil, and it was a surprise when I got to […]
hk (ii) Old HK & a city covered in roots . . . . . (Back again stateside, this week’s been full of cooking, more than all last year: crab and steamed fish and bountiful Chinese vegetables.)
hk (i) This summer I was in the city of my childhood for almost three weeks, sweating in all ways: slowly, immediately, consistently. I wasn’t sure how to feel, which is normal for me, but still dislocating. It was familiar and unfamiliar in a way that was different than when I was here in 2010-2011. […]
“protesters call for universal suffrage”
www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1273135/protesters-call-universal-suffrage-and-political-reform-handover . [2012] [2011a] [2011b]
twenty-four years From SCMP: “An opinion piece in the Shaanxi-based Huashang Daily read on Tuesday: ‘As those who are alive, we have to find out why those who died had died, we have to assume responsibility for those who died, we have to guarantee security for those who are alive.’ The piece titled ‘We have […]
notes, notes
{liturgical science, neurology of identity} {information as commodity, where information is “Insight”} {immortal jellyfish garden} {architecture: china & hk} {hk: “cocktail” language} {national education & hk identity}
notes
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/through-a-thwarted-cinematographers-eye-chinas-cultural-revolution/ . http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1031947/black-day-national-education-tamar-site-swamped
#71HK
This year, organizers’ estimates are at [400K] (last year they were around 200K). “An unexpected element…lay in the participation in the march of hundreds of mainland Chinese who carried banners denouncing the confiscation of their farms for government-backed real estate projects in communities near Hong Kong. ‘It is not possible to protest in China, so we […]
twenty-three years
“Thousands of people lit candles in Hong Kong…the only place in China where the Tiananmen Square crackdown is openly remembered” [SCMP] * It’s interesting to reread some of my notes from last year, and to remember how very vague yet distinctly present my awareness was growing up. [From June 2011] It’s easy to mythologize events […]