![]() He suggests that Identity Politics, a Western import, is congenial to Chinese Communist Party rule in Hong Kong. The author describes how, and explains why, journalists in Hong Kong acted with greater defiance than professors did. A case of surveillance in Lingnan University, the author’s former place of employment, is related and its implications considered. Students were the most defiant actors of all until university managements severed ties with their students’ unions, effectively defunding them. Faculty rapidly capitulated to government and management edicts, though locals showed more grit than expatriates did. Senior management responded to the new law by disciplining students, monitoring faculty, and cleansing universities of anything deemed hostile to the new order. ![]() ![]() The author examines the impact of that law on the conduct of university senior managements, on local and expatriate faculty, and on students. ![]() How did Hong Kong’s transition from a largely free, semi-independent city to a full-blown Communist Party dictatorship affect its academic life? A watershed moment was Beijing’s imposition, in June 2020, of a National Security Law. ![]()
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