Recent Incidents Involving Migrant Workers Point To Problems Of Racism In Taiwan

Brian Hioe

Rally Against ROC Constitution Held In Liberty Plaza By Pro-Taiwan Civil Society Groups

Brian Hioe

Following Show Trial Last Week, Demonstration Calls For Release Of Lee Ming-Che

Brian Hioe

Lee Ming-Che Trial Provokes Outrage, But What Now For Efforts To Secure His Release?

Brian Hioe

Shooting Death Should Lead To Discussion Of Migrant Workers’ Conditions In Taiwan

Brian Hioe

Political Tension Over Pro-Independence And Anti-Independence Posters In Hong Kong Campuses

Brian Hioe

Social Movements

The Battle For Hong Kong’s Courts

Garrett Dee
The struggle over the integrity of Hong Kong’s judiciary is shaping up to be an important political battle both domestically and internationally. The Hong Kong Basic Law provides for the establishment of the Hong Kong judiciary. Article 85 of the Basic Law states that these courts will act independently and “free from any interference”. This, however, is coming under fire from those who claim that the courts are becoming more and more an arm of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong... Read More
#19EnglishSelf-DeterminationSeptember 2017Social Movements0 Comments 08 min read

Harvard Anti-Affirmative Action Lawsuit Reveals White Conservatives’ Attempts To Use Asian-Americans As A Racial Wedge

Brian Hioe
A recent lawsuit filed alleging racial discrimination at Harvard against Asian-Americans due to affirmative action programs purports to be in the interest of Asian-Americans, but this would in fact be the attempt of white conservatives to repeal affirmative action programs to deny black and Latino students access to institutions of higher education... Read More
EnglishSeptember 2017Social MovementsYouth Movements2 Comments 07 min read

McKenzie Wark’s Take On Wang Hui And Leftist Orientalism

Brian Hioe
A recent essay by McKenzie Wark on Chinese New Left intellectual Wang Hui published on Verso Books’ blog proves an exercise in western academic leftists’ lack of knowledge of Asia and their inadvertent support of individuals with politics that they would likely find repulsive, if not for lack of sufficient knowledge about Asia and wishful desire to find analogues to themselves in non-western countries. It is instructive to examine this essay more closely in order to understand what we might term a form of leftist orientalism... Read More
August 2017EnglishLaborSocial Movements6 Comments 025 min read

Joshua Wong And Other Umbrella Movement Activists Sentenced To Jail By Hong Kong Government

Brian Hioe
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal handed down jail sentences today to Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, and Alex Chow for participation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests, sentencing Wong to six months in jail, Law to eight months in jail, and Alex Chow to seven months in jail. The three have been billed Hong Kong's first political prisoners. What now for Hong Kong?... Read More
#19August 2017EnglishSelf-DeterminationSocial Movements0 Comments 012 min read