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Author Archives: Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton has written for SCMP, BC Magazine, HK Magazine, PopMatters, hongkong.com and china.com. Her previous blog, Glutter, was nominated for a free speech award by Reporters Without Borders for her writings regarding democracy in Hong Kong and China. Some of her art, theatre and written works are archived in NYU Library’s Riot Grrrls Collection and Glasgow Women’s Library. Her fiction has appeared in journals around the world. She is nearly finished with her novel set during the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.

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Security law: An attempt to erase the memory of Hong Kong as it really was

by Yan Sham-Shackleton18:00, 22 July 202018:06, 22 July 2020

In Yoko Ogawa’s novel The Memory Police, a new government takes over a small island off the coast of Japan and begins to remove objects from its residents’ memories.  First, the residents must bring out a chosen item from their possessions and destroy it by killing, burning, burying, or discarding it in the rivers and […]

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Hongkongers’ lack of sovereignty does not equal lack of dignity

by Yan Sham-Shackleton19:00, 11 June 202012:18, 24 June 2020
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The way forward for a ‘humbly listening’ Hong Kong gov’t: an inquiry and amnesty for both sides

by Yan Sham-Shackleton12:00, 14 December 201923:55, 31 March 2020
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It’s #MeToo and all of us: Hongkongers will not accept oppression, subjugation or sexual violence

by Yan Sham-Shackleton09:00, 26 September 201923:32, 31 March 2020
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What is White Terror? The slipping of norms in Hong Kong’s flawed democracy

by Yan Sham-Shackleton22:45, 2 September 201923:23, 31 March 2020
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Hong Kong’s last stand? A gallant battle in the face of unspeakable sacrifice and overwhelming odds

by Yan Sham-Shackleton16:00, 19 August 201923:19, 31 March 2020
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Hong Kong’s third generation of democracy fighters are not just rioters, they are last line of resistance

by Yan Sham-Shackleton13:08, 28 July 201923:17, 31 March 2020
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Being polite and respectful is not an indicator of how worthy Hongkongers’ causes are

by Yan Sham-Shackleton19:30, 8 July 201923:17, 31 March 2020
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July 1, 1997: When six million Hongkongers were handed over by their colonists to a totalitarian regime

by Yan Sham-Shackleton20:11, 1 July 201923:07, 31 March 2020
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Unelected Carrie Lam compares Hongkongers to children as a tactic to disenfranchise

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