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Farewell, my doppelganger

When I left Hong Kong, my dear friends presented me with a cardboard cut-out doppelganger. I felt ambivalent about this gift because I knew…

Jun 24, 2022

Farewell, my doppelganger

Jun 24, 2022

Hong Kong journalist Ronson Chan: planting a flag for persistence

I was recently invited to take part in a panel discussion on press freedom in Hong Kong and was asked to specifically address the situation…

Jul 21, 2021

Hong Kong journalist Ronson Chan: planting a flag for persistence

Jul 21, 2021

The unnatural death of Apple Daily and the future of independent journalism in Hong Kong

This is a longer version of an article — with additional quotes — that I wrote for www.theconversation.com/uk and which you can read here.

Jun 29, 2021

The unnatural death of Apple Daily and the future of independent journalism in Hong Kong

Jun 29, 2021

Don’t mourn for Hong Kong’s Press Freedom, Defend it

This is an extended version of a piece I wrote for The Conversation UK, which you can see here…

Aug 18, 2020

Don’t mourn for Hong Kong’s Press Freedom, Defend it

Aug 18, 2020

June 4th 2020 — Remembering as Resisting

When memory has become a crime, then every act of remembrance is an act of resistance.

Jun 3, 2020

June 4th 2020 — Remembering as Resisting

Jun 3, 2020

The wisdom and wit of a Hong Kong uncle

A balm for hurting hearts

May 26, 2020

The wisdom and wit of a Hong Kong uncle

May 26, 2020

From January 2014: Hong Kong’s Free Press In Danger As China Tightens Grip On Media

This was originally published in Huffington Post on 22 January 2014. I’m reposting a cached copy here because the page doesn’t seem to…

Jun 15, 2019

From January 2014: Hong Kong’s Free Press In Danger As China Tightens Grip On Media

Jun 15, 2019

The Story of Ah Fu

Published in the Hong Kong iMail, 29 January 2001

Mar 20, 2019

The Story of Ah Fu

Mar 20, 2019

I Want to Watch TV! How the Government Killed Local Television and the Hong Kong Dream

Today, Hong Kong Television Network, known as HKTV announced it would withdraw its second bid for a free-to-air television licence and…

Mar 27, 2018

I Want to Watch TV! How the Government Killed Local Television and the Hong Kong Dream

Mar 27, 2018

Macau’s democrats can’t bet on democracy as an election issue

Two days before Macau’s legislative assembly election, on the last day campaigning was permitted, I travelled to Macau and talked to the…

Sep 20, 2017

Macau’s democrats can’t bet on democracy as an election issue

Sep 20, 2017

Yuen Chan

Yuen Chan

Journalist. Lecturer at the Dept of Journalism at City, University of London, formerly taught at CUHK. Hongkonger. South Londoner.

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