Author Archives: Yan Sham-Shackleton

Greater ChinaApr 2, 2005: Times AsiaBeijing misstep over new Hong Kong headBy Janus Lam HONG KONG – Despite the resignation of unpopular Tung Chee-hwa as the chief executive of Hong Kong, Beijing’s leaders are having difficulties in marshaling Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing camp. This is reflected by the reluctance of Beijing’s own supporters to accept Beijing’sContinue reading “News: Beijing misstep over new Hong Kong head”

Bloggers post hopes for changeZhu SunApril 4, 2005The Standard Two years ago, when more than 500,000 people flooded the streets in Central to protest against controversial Article 23 anti-sedition legislation, Yan Sham-Shackleton stood on a pedestrian overpass documenting it with her video camera. At 5am, she had started writing Internet essays about Hong Kong’s struggleContinue reading “News: Bloggers post hopes for change”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong Chinese China publications can be so very cool. I own a book on interviews of all the conptemporary photographers today around the world published by the Shanghai Government Press. Some of them take photos of junkies and men painted in drag stuck on with sequences looking like dwarfs. They alsoContinue reading “China’s Underground Culture, Hiding Your Face and T-shirts that will never appear in China”

The China Times here said Jia Qingling, a political bureau member and deputy head of the central Taiwan Affairs Office, was to meet with the KMT group Thursday. Observers said the trip, the first official visit by the KMT to the mainland since it was defeated by communist forces in 1949, was a prelude toContinue reading “News: Taiwan opposition party group leaves for China in bid to ease tensions”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong   taiwanprotest1    Originally uploaded by glutter. IN ONE of the largest demonstrations in Taiwan’s history, about one million demonstrators marched through the capital yesterday in protest at a new Chinese law that authorises an attack on the island if it moves toward formal independence. Politician Bikhim Hsiao led theContinue reading “News: A million Taiwanese protest at China law”