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Editor @asiancha, Voice & Verse, and @hongkongstudies. Junior Fellow @ HK Academy of the Humanities. Resident @uiiwp Fall 2023. Email: [email protected]
Hong Kong and Paris
Joined June 2010
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    When Wittgenstein submitted an essay for his BA degree at Cambridge, he did not include a preface and notes indicating the sources that he had used. When asked to supply these, he wrote this letter to G.E. Moore. (Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951, 76.)
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    Source: Telegram Pictures taken in London.
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    Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s, by Fan Ho ไฝ•่—ฉ. m.facebook.com/story.php?storโ€ฆ
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    PEN Hong Kong (@hongkongpen)'s comment on Hong Kong university lecturer Shiu Ka-chun who has been relieved of his teaching duties. Shiu was involved in the Umbrella Movement and was jailed for nearly half a year.
    PEN Hong Kong is concerned to learn that Shiu Ka-chun, who was jailed for almost six months for his involvement in the Umbrella Movement in 2014, has been relieved of his teaching duties at Hong Kong Baptist University. 1/
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    'Then, in 1939, something close to a miracle happened:ย The Philippines opened its doors to the Jews. Filipinos welcomed the refugees with open arms and, when World War II reached Philippine shores, they protected them.'
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    Have we forgotten?
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    Day to night. Parents and supporters have gathered outside PolyU. Annie Zhang, who posted these pics on FB, wrote that the parents want to be close to their children inside PolyU. At 6, there were over 200 people sitting in. Number is increasing. More: facebook.com/annie.zhang.92โ€ฆ
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    Please STOP saying *something something* in Hong Kong is dead. We are here. We are living.
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    World, this is Hong Kong today
    Police harass & threaten 13 yo journalist from Student Depth Media to "go back home & die!" 1700 |Tsim Sha Tsui Harbour City Riot police also mocked his height by gesturing how short he is. He was arrested & taken into a police van
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    Please don't. 'UK universities are testing a new online teaching link for students in Chinaโ€”which will require course materials to comply with Chinese restrictions on the internet... [I]t means students can only reach material on an "allowed" list.'
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    CONGRATULATIONS! Eric Yip, from Hong Kong, won the National Poetry Competition (ยฃ5,000) for his poem "Fricatives", which "plays with ideas about language to also comment on colonialism, race, migration, belonging & the guilt of leaving oneโ€™s home behind."