Lazy social media juxtapositions for laughs and meme culture should have prepared us for this. But seeing it on repeat on our screens the day after 53 pro-democracy activists were arrested at 6 am on national security charges made it unbearable. And yet, there it was: a false equivalence between the Hong Kong storming of […]
Author Archives: Ilaria Maria Sala
Ilaria Maria Sala is an award winning writer and ceramic artist based in Hong Kong. She has been living in Asia since 1988 - first in Beijing, then Tokyo and Hong Kong, with long detours in Shanghai and Kathmandu. Her byline has appeared in Le Monde, the New York Times, the Guardian, ArtNews, El Periódico and La Stampa, among others. Her latest book is Pechino 1989, published by Una Città in 2019. Follow her on Twitter.
