Hong Kong: what next?
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Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Sorry to hear that. RIP Suzanne Pepper.
For those of you who have come across The King Of Kowloon and his calligraphy, this will be a rare treat.
For those unfamiliar, it will be a worthwhile revelation.
I met him a couple of times, when I lived in YauMaTei in the early 1990's, before I knew who he was. And still have a couple of the Tang designed Tee-shirts with his calligraphy, from 1997.
The govt. would paint over his "graffiti" as fast as they could but he was far more productive and his work was ubiquitous.
His story is a part of the fabric and history of Hong Kong.
Louisa Lim spent eight year researching him to produce this wonderful piece. Well written. Well presented multi-media. Photos. A couple of videos and a podcast.
"He was born in China proper and had crossed the border when he was 16. He had worked in various menial jobs, including as a trash sorter at a waste station, where he had an accident that had crushed his legs.
He’d only had two years of schooling, as shown in his misshapen calligraphy. It was not the kind prized by the literati, which saw it as the apogee of all artforms. His was the writing of a child, uneven and crooked.
He always wrote the same thing — a genealogy of his family going back more than 20 generations — lists of names, sometimes the places they’d lost, sometimes lewd sexual suggestions about the Queen of England.
One story was that he had seen ancestral documents over the border in Guangdong claiming the land belonged to him, but no-one else had seen them.
These bare facts established, right from the very start, that I was on a fool’s mission, a journalistic road to nowhere, but once I started, I couldn’t stop."
Enjoy.
www.abc.net.au
Woof
For those unfamiliar, it will be a worthwhile revelation.
I met him a couple of times, when I lived in YauMaTei in the early 1990's, before I knew who he was. And still have a couple of the Tang designed Tee-shirts with his calligraphy, from 1997.
The govt. would paint over his "graffiti" as fast as they could but he was far more productive and his work was ubiquitous.
His story is a part of the fabric and history of Hong Kong.
Louisa Lim spent eight year researching him to produce this wonderful piece. Well written. Well presented multi-media. Photos. A couple of videos and a podcast.
"He was born in China proper and had crossed the border when he was 16. He had worked in various menial jobs, including as a trash sorter at a waste station, where he had an accident that had crushed his legs.
He’d only had two years of schooling, as shown in his misshapen calligraphy. It was not the kind prized by the literati, which saw it as the apogee of all artforms. His was the writing of a child, uneven and crooked.
He always wrote the same thing — a genealogy of his family going back more than 20 generations — lists of names, sometimes the places they’d lost, sometimes lewd sexual suggestions about the Queen of England.
One story was that he had seen ancestral documents over the border in Guangdong claiming the land belonged to him, but no-one else had seen them.
These bare facts established, right from the very start, that I was on a fool’s mission, a journalistic road to nowhere, but once I started, I couldn’t stop."
Enjoy.
New artworks by a long-dead artist are appearing on Hong Kong's streets. I finally cracked the mystery
He was a man so famous everybody knew him, yet such an enigma that nobody seemed to know anything about him. I was on a journalistic road to nowhere, but once I started, I couldn't stop, writes Louisa Lim.
www.abc.net.au
Woof
Remember the five young professionals in their 20's from the Speech Therapists Union? The children's books publishers, with their cartoon books about sheep?
They've been in jail, on remand, waiting for trial for more than a year.
There was a court hearing.
Sedition.
Woof
They've been in jail, on remand, waiting for trial for more than a year.
There was a court hearing.
Sedition.
Woof
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Oof!
Fucking Master Watchmakers! Orks and wild creatures, each and every one of them - especially the Arab-East German ones living in a South China jungle! FFS!
Fucking oof! I'm far, far too old for this shit.
G'night. I love you. Rest well.
Keep thinking peeps.
And, please, be nice to each other.
I think I must be barking mad!
Woof
Fucking Master Watchmakers! Orks and wild creatures, each and every one of them - especially the Arab-East German ones living in a South China jungle! FFS!
Fucking oof! I'm far, far too old for this shit.
G'night. I love you. Rest well.
Keep thinking peeps.
And, please, be nice to each other.
I think I must be barking mad!
Woof
Yeah, I remember the sheep books. This is such shit news.
It's truly horrifying. And yet I'm barely touching the surface in my flimsy reportage here.
The rapidity, breadth, depth and ubiquity of the suppression has been breathtaking.
We should all be ashamed of ourselves. Ashamed of the blind eye we've consistently turned - each and every one of us.
Anyway. Come Bells.
G'night peeps.
Woof
Grandma Wong has been jailed for 32 weeks.
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Hong Kong's 'Grandma Wong' jailed over 2019 protests
The prominent campaigner receives a 32-week prison sentence for unlawful assembly.
www.bbc.com
Woof
Oh!
And it's 2:30am on Saturday 16/07/22.
And I have a dead Arab on the sofa.
And I don't have a patio!
Are there any "Mr. Wolfs" out there who could possibly lend me some hints and tips?
Oh my oh my. Oh dear oh dear.
Oh well. I'm going to bed. I'll figure it out tomorrow before he starts to decompose too badly.
Recommendations appreciated by Private Message.
Thank you!
Rest well peeps.
Be nice to each other.
And keep thinking.
Woof
And it's 2:30am on Saturday 16/07/22.
And I have a dead Arab on the sofa.
And I don't have a patio!
Are there any "Mr. Wolfs" out there who could possibly lend me some hints and tips?
Oh my oh my. Oh dear oh dear.
Oh well. I'm going to bed. I'll figure it out tomorrow before he starts to decompose too badly.
Recommendations appreciated by Private Message.
Thank you!
Rest well peeps.
Be nice to each other.
And keep thinking.
Woof
An update ...
"And I have a dead Arab on the sofa."
When I woke up ... he was gone!
And he now tells me he wasn't dead at all and was just "in therapy".
Never trust a Nihilist - or a Tory, for that matter.
Rest well peeps.
Be nice to each other.
Keep thinking.
Woof
"And I have a dead Arab on the sofa."
When I woke up ... he was gone!
And he now tells me he wasn't dead at all and was just "in therapy".
Never trust a Nihilist - or a Tory, for that matter.
Rest well peeps.
Be nice to each other.
Keep thinking.
Woof
For those interested in Taiwan ...
I'm very pro-Taiwan and find this short thread by academic/historian James Lin absolutely fascinating as an insight into, post-1980, Taiwanese constitutional development.
The original tweet it refers to was deleted but references an article by (pro-CCP?) Prof. Andrew MacLeod (that I link to first).
Academic Jessica Drun is a nice addition to the criticism (in the thread but also below).
A really good read in ten minutes for both.
(Plenty of Wumaos below James Lin's short thread.)
The article:
theconversation.com
James Lin:
Jessica Drun:
Have a smooth week peeps.
Be nice to each other.
Woof
I'm very pro-Taiwan and find this short thread by academic/historian James Lin absolutely fascinating as an insight into, post-1980, Taiwanese constitutional development.
The original tweet it refers to was deleted but references an article by (pro-CCP?) Prof. Andrew MacLeod (that I link to first).
Academic Jessica Drun is a nice addition to the criticism (in the thread but also below).
A really good read in ten minutes for both.
(Plenty of Wumaos below James Lin's short thread.)
The article:
When people say the West should support Taiwan, what exactly do they mean?
Taiwan’s ambiguous position makes talk of war all the more dangerous
theconversation.com
James Lin:
Jessica Drun:
Have a smooth week peeps.
Be nice to each other.
Woof
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
For those interested in Taiwan ...
I'm very pro-Taiwan and find this short thread by academic/historian James Lin absolutely fascinating as an insight into, post-1980, Taiwanese constitutional development.
The original tweet it refers to was deleted but references an article by (pro-CCP?) Prof. Andrew MacLeod (that I link to first).
Academic Jessica Drun is a nice addition to the criticism (in the thread but also below).
A really good read in ten minutes for both.
(Plenty of Wumaos below James Lin's short thread.)
The article:
When people say the West should support Taiwan, what exactly do they mean?
Taiwan’s ambiguous position makes talk of war all the more dangerous
James Lin:
Jessica Drun:
Have a smooth week peeps.
Be nice to each other.
Woof
Strange - I searched for "[at]An*rewMMa*leod Ch*na" and also "[at]An*rewMMa*leod Ch*nese" to see if a so-called academic with a fair size follower account has a habit of bad takes on the subject. Clicked "latest" and it seems he's posted then deleted a few posts on the subject.
Anyway, hope it's not too hot where you are. It's pretty intense over here in the UK, weather-wise, set to hit 40 or maybe even higher tomorrow in some places. Look after yourself.
Yup!
Giving Yuan to charlatan, grifting, lying pricks is all the CCP has left in its international repertoire.
A bit like the remaining climate change deniers.
Rest peeps. Stop driving, flying and eating meat.
Now!
G'night.
Come Bella.
Woof
A new 14 minute documentary, produced to mark the third anniversary of the Yuen Long Station Triad attack on commuters on 21/07/19.
English subtitles. (And Panda hugging YouTube age restricted it so you need to log in.)
Made by a team of independent Hong Kong journalists, including (ex-RTHK,) Bao Choy.
Woof
English subtitles. (And Panda hugging YouTube age restricted it so you need to log in.)
Made by a team of independent Hong Kong journalists, including (ex-RTHK,) Bao Choy.
Woof
gosub
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Wayback machine may be of use
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Good idea - thanks!
I warned months ago - last year - that the next UK Prime Minister would be Liz Truss.
Sunak is a sleazy, corrupt, dark, highly intelligent, Machiavellian lunatic. What could be worse than that?
Well ... Truss is a fucking goat!
The hard right wing run them both. This is State Capture at the highest of levels.
And the world gets a goat in the UK.
Be afraid peeps. Dark influences have the upper hand.
Happy days ahead, obviously.
Keep thinking peeps.
Brace! Brace!
And, for fuck sake, be nice to each other.
The Arab is here tomorrow night. I need rest.
I love you.
Woof
Sunak is a sleazy, corrupt, dark, highly intelligent, Machiavellian lunatic. What could be worse than that?
Well ... Truss is a fucking goat!
The hard right wing run them both. This is State Capture at the highest of levels.
And the world gets a goat in the UK.
Be afraid peeps. Dark influences have the upper hand.
Happy days ahead, obviously.
Keep thinking peeps.
Brace! Brace!
And, for fuck sake, be nice to each other.
The Arab is here tomorrow night. I need rest.
I love you.
Woof
Remember Tong Ying Kit, the guy on the bike with the flag jailed for nine years in the first NSL trial?
Well, originally he appealed against the "no bail" and "no jury" rulings and lost. They've now hit him with a bill for GBP 140,000 in prosecution costs.
A short thread from the Hong Kong Rule of Law Monitor with a more detailed blog attached. Also attached, a couple of relevant articles and a US Congress report from July 2022.
Woof
Well, originally he appealed against the "no bail" and "no jury" rulings and lost. They've now hit him with a bill for GBP 140,000 in prosecution costs.
A short thread from the Hong Kong Rule of Law Monitor with a more detailed blog attached. Also attached, a couple of relevant articles and a US Congress report from July 2022.
Woof
- sigh -
hongkongfp.com
And - double sigh -
hongkongfp.com
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University of Hong Kong makes national security law course a mandatory graduation requirement - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Undergraduate students at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will have to take an introductory course on the Beijing-imposed national security law in order to graduate. According to an email sent to all HKU students on Monday seen by HKFP, pupils will have to enrol in a non-credit bearing course...
hongkongfp.com
And - double sigh -
Hong Kong's leading bookstores decline to stock new book by last governor Chris Patten - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
At least three leading bookstore chains in Hong Kong have declined to stock a new book written by the city’s last governor Chris Patten, even as the title sells out at independent shops. Commercial Press, Bookazine and Eslite told an HKFP reporter posing as a customer that they were not carrying...
hongkongfp.com
Woof
Yup!
For the last 22 days (three fucking weeks!) my bedroom, overnight, has been over 30C and over 90% humidity - even with fans.
It's brutal. Not enough sleep. I wake up too early.
And then it just gets hotter during the days; it's been up to between 36C and 38C this week.
Oof!
By the middle of next week, the summer monsoons are coming. There'll be some respite, with temps down to 28C - 32C and humidity at 85% - 95% but that'll be accompanied by ongoing tropical thunderstorms unleashing metres of rain a day (up to 10cm an hour in places for long periods,) and - particularly on the dry ground - extensive flooding is inevitable.
I fucking hate summers.
And climate change.
Stay safe peeps.
Be nice.
Woof
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