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Jennifer Eagleton, a Hong Kong resident since 1997, is a policy committee member of the Hong Kong Democratic Foundation and was an adviser to the University of Hong Kong’s “Designing Democracy Hong Kong” project. Her PhD analyzed how Hong Kong talks about democracy through metaphor. She is a teacher of English and linguistics as well as researcher and editor.

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Another literary landmark: Are we tilting at democratic windmills?

by Jennifer Eagleton18:55, 20 May 201620:02, 31 March 2020

Shakespeare is not the only wordsmith to “shuffle off this mortal coil” 400 years ago. The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra hasn’t had as much fanfare as the 400th anniversary of the bard’s passing in 2016.  The main character of Don Quixote in Cervantes’s classic The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, has […]

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Where there’s a Will there’s a wail: How Shakespeare might have penned a sea-wise tragedy

by Jennifer Eagleton22:00, 8 May 201619:59, 31 March 2020
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One year after: an undeserved but strangely moving hug

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Being ‘pragmatic’ in Hong Kong doesn’t mean losing our core values

by Jennifer Eagleton11:34, 4 September 201518:38, 31 March 2020
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What canal locks and Hong Kong’s democratisation have in common

by Jennifer Eagleton16:00, 1 September 201518:32, 31 March 2020
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An Aussie’s memoir: Watching the SAR grow

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A work in progress: An imaginary and re-imagined Hong Kong

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