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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…
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The authors are a married team of journalists whose manuscript on generations of Hong Kong activists I picked up with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.
The excitement came from my fascination with Hong Kong and the fact that I had read and learned a lot from the smart reporting each author had done on political events in different parts of Asia—reporting often framed around poignant profiles of individuals.
The trepidation came from a concern I wouldn’t find out new things, since I had published my own short book Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy in 2020 and gone on to…
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