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...
As we reach the one year anniversary of the Umbrella Movement's beginning, we might look back on Hong Kong and Taiwan after the year of the Umbrella Movement and Sunflower Movement...
Yesterday afternoon, demonstrators marched to the Ministry of Education to throw paper airplanes into the Ministry of Education courtyard to protest planned textbook revisions....
The pro-Taiwanese unification Left has become increasingly aggressive in its attacks conducted on Taiwanese civil society after the Sunflower Movement. We might venture a criticism of our own....
With social movements, it seems that once recognition of a movement’s historical significance sets in, so, too, does the impulse to document the movement for posterity....
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...
At the start of this week, it seemed that the situation with Occupy Central had reached a height of utmost tension. Protest leaders from Occupy Central and student leaders alike were calling for protestors to withdraw as far back as Sunday, after the brutal use of police force and fear that subsequent violence might prove deadly....