"Glory to Hong Kong," Anthem of Hong Kong Protests

[Hector12]

The Chinese Communist government is trying to prevent Chinese from singing this song, but Chinese are singing it anyway.

 

[ActionJackson]

Good. It's not up to the Communist Chinese to control the hearts and minds of a sovereign people.

 

[Zebra]

The Chinese Communist government is trying to prevent Chinese from singing this song, but Chinese are singing it anyway.

let them sing!

 

[ThirdTerm]

Most Hong Kongers miss British rule because it was a model colony, as was the case with Taiwan. In rebellious colonies such as Ireland and Korea, they have totally different perspectives.



Hong Kong is construed as an ideal tropical and cosmopolitan colony as a result of British rule. Huang draws on a rich and varied archive in order to advance her arguments about the place of Hong Kong in British culture, beginning with a compelling analysis of a postcard, made in Hong Kong around 1910. As Huang argues, picturesque imagery portrayed the island as a model colony, whose orderly nature and aesthetic similarities to the Home Counties signaled British ‘colonising genius’ to metropolitan viewers.

What We’re Reading – Visual Fragments: Hong Kong in British Culture, 1841-1941

QandA with Chi Chi Huang and Emma Thomas, 12 October 2021 Chi Chi Huang is an environmental and medical humanities historian of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. H…

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