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A photo like this in 2025 will take on extremely different meaning than when Luffy was floating around last time and I for one can’t wait for it
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Oh-oh-oh, up, up, up with our voices
영원히 깨질 수 없는
Gonna be, gonna be golden
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I mean, no one should be doing this in general, but doing this in the current environment in the US once again shows Beijing truly does not give a shit about its own nationals or diaspora
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“Higher proportion marks significant increase from 2021 poll and reflects growing prominence of mainland capital in Hong Kong’s economy”… yeah, sure, “prominence”

www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Ahem
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Did you know, the folks who own China Times also make
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Because... hello (kitty)?
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I totally thought FT is saying everyone's hot in HK, just not in the 'need-AC' way

www.ft.com/content/ff44...
October 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Heh
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The White Terror is over in Taiwan, but the age of banned books, banned art, banned speech elsewhere is not. To be able to freely look back at a painful past as history and learn from it - wouldn't that be nice?

人,不是應該生而自由嗎?

"Aren't people supposed to be born free?"

Source : Telegram (Apr 2020)
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The horror in 返校 resonated, not so much the supernatural but the *human* horror of authoritarianism, and the price that needs to be paid to come out the other side...

總得有人活下去,記得這一切有多得來不易

"Someone has to survive this, and remember how none of it was easy."

Source: Insta - everyblue99 (Apr 2020)
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The idea comes up again in the below from late 2020, when it was clear NSL has eroded academic freedom in HK. Schools are now a shade of bloody red, nothing but a theatre for "love your country, love your Party", a graveyard of free thought.

Source: Telegram/ Insta - sei3.zeoi6 (Sep 2020)
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Here we have Xi - as a malevolent spirit haunting our education institutions - dismantling HKU with an axe. Instead of 返校, it says 党校 - School of the Party. When education becomes reeducation...something has gone terribly wrong.

Source: Telegram
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The one below hints at the horrors at San Uk Ling Holding Centre, the notorious detention centre where the police allegedly assaulted protesters. There are rumours some met their deaths here.

你是忘記了, 還是害怕想起來? - "Have you forgotten? Or are you afraid to remember?"

Source: Telegram (Sep/ Oct 2019)
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
You sometimes get the feeling HKers are just ATMs for the UK...
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I raise you this scene from Hong Kong in 2019:
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
At the end of the Umbrella Movement in 2014, HKers created this banner: We’ll be back

Maybe it was just dreamers talking, but… we kept that promise.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This makes it sound like he's almost normal. By this site's standards anyway.
August 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This detail is wild
August 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"So-called peace and prosperity,
Is just the reality white-washed.
If you are willing to be bound
You will never be able to fly."

Source: Telegram (Mar 2020)
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
But it's not normal. Maybe it never was before. Maybe the Old Normal was the problem. But at least we can all still remember through art there's a moment in time when there was hope we could have a say in what 'normality' could look like

"Pretend it's a normal society."

Source: Telegram (Feb 2020)
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Leung's project speaks to the dissonance HKers feel, living in a traumatized city, in a middle of a global pandemic, with a government that's insisting everything's normal.

"Work: Disappeared Posters #2
2020 Jan"

"Work: Disappeared Statue
2019 Dec"

Source: Telegram (Mar 2020)
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's notable the installations started around Feb 2020, when Wuhan was in full lockdown after their government tried to cover up a pandemic. The HK government was still in denial a pandemic was happening because it had to, politically. Everything was just fiiiiiiiiine.

Source: Telegram (Mar 2020)
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
'Paper Over The Cracks' also highlighted the scars the city and its people bear, and the difficulties to truly heal. Painting over graffitied walls do little to address the underlying issues of an unrepresentative, undemocratic government. The cracks remain.

Source: TW (Feb 2020)
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It was clear HKer's stories would be erased even before NSL. 粉飾太平香港 was a forerunner to the archival exercise we saw for the deleted RTHK videos - when you're told something never happened or existed, remembering it did is a kind of defiance

Source: LIHKG (Feb 2020)
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM