Jonsered Seminar: Hong Kong

  • Lee, G. (Participant)
  • Fredrik Fällman (Organiser)
  • Patrick Poon (Participant)
  • Jinyan Zeng (Participant)

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Description

The past ten years regular protests against restrictions culminated in 2019, when up to two million people – a quarter of the population – participated in the demonstrations. In 2020 a national security law was introduced in Hong Kong that applies retroactively and has led to draconic closures of media, trade unions and NGO:s and to hard self-censorship. What possibilities are there for freedom of expression in Hong Kong today? For writers, artists, activists and academics? What happens to Hong Kong identity? How will history be written, and what role does literature and language play?
Fredrik Fällman associate professor in sinology, University of Gothenburg, Gregory Lee professor of Chinese studies at University of St Andrews UK, Patrick Poon Independent human rights researcher & advocate and PhD candidate at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 FR, Zeng Jinyan post-doctoral fellow, Center for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, and Johan Öberg slavicist, essayist and translator.
Period24 Feb 2022
Event typeConference
LocationGoteborg, SwedenShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • Freedom of expression
  • literature
  • language
  • writers

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