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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.

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Why comparisons between the US Capital turmoil and Hong Kong’s protests amount to perverse propaganda

by Ilaria Maria Sala22:34, 7 January 202122:35, 7 January 2021

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 […]

A tribute to self-exiled Ted Hui – Hong Kong democrat and protest peace-keeper

by Ilaria Maria Sala11:04, 5 December 202023:02, 7 December 2020

Why intimidation is a piece of cake for Beijing’s wolf-warrior envoys

by Ilaria Maria Sala09:00, 21 October 202016:51, 20 October 2020

Chinese tech firm Huawei’s bullying attitude fails to win over hearts and minds

by Ilaria Maria Sala11:00, 15 December 201923:53, 31 March 2020

Will Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s bubble of delusion ever burst? 

by Ilaria Maria Sala17:47, 26 November 201923:49, 31 March 2020

Hong Kong’s MTR was an unlikely target for protests – until it showed who its daddy was

by Ilaria Maria Sala13:45, 12 October 201923:41, 31 March 2020

Why does the gov’t care more about attacks on flags and signs than the attacks against Hongkongers?

by Ilaria Maria Sala14:09, 9 August 201923:21, 31 March 2020

A 13-member ‘manel’ in 2019? Democracy without feminism is not democracy

by Ilaria Maria Sala16:12, 6 May 201922:54, 31 March 2020

Normalising communist aesthetic: Cantonese opera-singing Trump in Hong Kong not so funny after all 

by Ilaria Maria Sala15:12, 20 April 201922:52, 31 March 2020

Obituary: The Li Xueqin I knew – a leading Chinese archaeologist who trod carefully around political pitfalls

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