Over 60 were arrested and over 120 were injured during the riot which broke out Monday in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. But the so-called “Fishball Revolution” was hardly about just fishballs, or even food hawkers...
More than a year since the Umbrella Movement took the world by storm, the debate over its significance remains shrouded in a cloud of propaganda, censorship, or worse, a distorted form of leftist Orientalism...
New Bloom interviews Ian Rowen, Ph. D candidate at the University of Colorado, and one of the few individuals to have experienced both the Sunflower movement and the Umbrella movement ...
Is Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution over? This has been the question that many have asked themselves over the past month, both in Hong Kong and outside of it...
Now approaching a month’s duration, the series of protests which have rocked Hong Kong since late September have seen a series of events in the past week including attempts at negotiation between students and government, the breakdown of negotiations, continued police violence, and growing public sentiment against occupiers. But we have seen this before...