1/ Under China’s autocratic regime, censorship has become commonplace. Whilst whistleblower doctors are detained for telling the truth, and critical voices on social media are suppressed, literature is permanent activism. It resists China’s attempt to rewrite the history.
2/ As Milan Kundera said, the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. And the Beijing authority is extremely aware of civil society’s ability to document and archive.
3/ Unfree Speech mentions our archival project, Decoding #HongKong’s History, which is unearthing declassified files from the 1980s on Sino-British negotiations and the future of Hong Kong.
4/ China’s state mouthpieces said this documentary project was about ‘creating alternative narratives’. In this context, to write is to resist.
5/ *Standing with Hong Kong: An Interview with Joshua Wong, authors of #UnfreeSpeech, discuss free speech in Hong Kong, coronavirus, and the role of literature in campaigning for global democracy: pentransmissions.com/2020/03/31/sta…
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