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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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Orwell revisited: The Party wants Hongkongers to learn to love Big Brother

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