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Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and liberal democracy. One country, two systems kept its media free, its courts independent and its protests boisterous, designed also to convince Taiwan of a peaceful solution to Beijing''s desire for reunification.

Yet this formulation excluded Hong Kong''s own people, their future negotiated by political titans in faraway capitals. In 2019, an ill-conceived law spear-headed by a sycophantic leader pushed a third of the city to take to the streets in one of the most enduring protest movements the world has ever seen. Xi Jinping responded with a draconian national security law that sought not only to end the demonstrations but quash the problem of Hong Kongers'' identity and desire for freedom.

Reverend Chu, who believed Hong Kong had to carry the spi

Among the Braves

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    A Hardback by Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin

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      Publisher Hachette Books
      Published 23 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9780306830365
      978-0306830365
      ISBN-10 306830361
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      Political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and liberal democracy. One country, two systems kept its media free, its courts independent and its protests boisterous, designed also to convince Taiwan of a peaceful solution to Beijing''s desire for reunification.

      Yet this formulation excluded Hong Kong''s own people, their future negotiated by political titans in faraway capitals. In 2019, an ill-conceived law spear-headed by a sycophantic leader pushed a third of the city to take to the streets in one of the most enduring protest movements the world has ever seen. Xi Jinping responded with a draconian national security law that sought not only to end the demonstrations but quash the problem of Hong Kongers'' identity and desire for freedom.

      Reverend Chu, who believed Hong Kong had to carry the spi

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