Rowena Xiaoqing He

Rowena Xiaoqing He, 2018–19 Member in the School of Social Science, shares her perspective on a government ban of Hong Kong's annual June 4 vigil in Victoria Park, commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen movement, and efforts to keep the memory alive.

In June, Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong that bans secession, subversion, terrorist activities and collusion with foreign powers. The law was passed to quell the pro-democracy movement that destabilized the financial hub last...

"Since the Tiananmen massacre, activists, scholars, and regular citizens have launched a war against forgetting. Many Tiananmen veterans, both inside and outside China, including Liu Xiaobo, the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died a political...

“Tiananmen remains the most sensitive and taboo subject in China. The post-Tiananmen regime has constructed a narrative portraying the Tiananmen Movement as a Western conspiracy to weaken and divide China. Massive efforts were devoted to inscribe...