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2019年8月6日星期二

Timing of establishing DAB

Beijing came up with an anti-imperialist discourse not seen since the days of the Cultural Revolution, including colorful names for Patten, such as "sinner of the millennium" and "liar" for introducing democracy only after 150 years of colonialism and for violating the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law. It also supported the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), a local grassroots political group that had been established soon after Patten arrived in Hong Kong in 1992.

Carroll, J.M. (2007). A Concise History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

政治參與和管治危機

...Giving Hong Kong people as much control over their own affairs as possible while ensuring certainty about Hong Kong's post-1997 future. "The reality," argues Leo Goodstadt (British economist based in Hong Kong), "was that , by the late 1990s, it was obvious that without an expansion of the public's participation in the process of government, the credibility of Hong Kong's political institutions could not be maintained and there would be a crisis of governability."

Carroll, J.M. (2007). A Concise History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

節錄自朱耀明牧師〈敲鐘者言〉

朱牧師如此自白︰「雨傘運動中,我只是一個敲鐘者,希望發出警號,讓人們知道不幸和災難正在發生,期望喚醒人們的良知,共挽狂瀾。」

---周副教授〈我們的黃金時代〉

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2019年8月5日星期一

佢o地仲執緊字粒

……結構性審查行徑「後天下之憂而憂」,建基於「被動客觀」之姿態,走得更遠,於重要新聞之時 (如元朗黑夜),採取按兵不動的策略,不主動、不爭先,結果令公眾關注度降低,減少令權貴尷尬的機會。

pronunciation

Admiralty
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porcelain
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Granville
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2019年8月4日星期日

The Strike-Boycott of 1925-1926

九十四年前的省港大罷工給現時的香港有什麼的啟示?撇除當年中國因素,香港有很多社會問題接近一百年都未解決。第一,工時長。縱使您是人生勝利組,三十出頭已經結婚生子,許多人都不能夠親自教育子女,要靠四大長老或傭工。第二,居住問題。新加坡地小但成功,港人望塵莫及,我們的政府只懂提出東大嶼,討好商家、傾斜功能組別,明明有大批棕地,不好好研究交通配套。第三,投票權與政治參與。港人想普選,中央打破承諾不允許。議員選了出來,宣誓表現不「莊重」或認為你有「港獨」思想,又會被取消資格。

Although it was sparked by events in China, the strike derived part of its local force from genuine economic concerns and from the popular feeling against privileged status of foreigners. This was apparent from the demands of the strike commission (委員會), which apart from standard issues --- such as an eight-hour workday, the abolition (廢除) of contract and child labor, freedom of speech and press, the right to organize, and reductions in rent --- also had a strong local component: that labor unions be allowed to vote for a Chinese member on the Legislative Council and that Chinese be treated as the equal of Europeans and be able to live on the Peak.

Carroll, J.M. (2007). A Concise History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.