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In Hong Kong, politics is inseparable from the art of filmmaking

August 17, 2020

By Shirley Lau on July 24, 2020 Five years ago, filmmaker Zune Kwok made a dystopian film about a cabal of pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong who plotted the enactment of a dreaded national security law to crack down on pro-democracy activity in the former British colony. This, as it turns out, is an eerie case…

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Artist Chen Weiming to Create a Monument to Hong Kong Protests in California’s Mojave Desert

August 10, 2020

As US levies toughest sanction yet on China for its destruction of Hong Kong’s relatively free political system, Weiming says he wants to pay tribute to the “people’s fight for freedom” By Darya King August 7, 2020 4:26 pm Some of the iconic scenes of Hong Kong democracy protests will be preserved permanently through a…