Co-organizer: Left Turn Books
Event & livestream page: https://reurl.cc/ZbG6oW
Hong Kong and Taiwan, 33 Years After June 4th
Starting from the history of the June 4th massacre, this session looked at how Taiwan and China have diverged in the 33 years since, discussing where both stand today across three generations, along with the connections and divergences between them after June 4th. It also examined how, following the imposition of the National Security Law, Beijing and the Hong Kong government have constrained Hong Kongers’ freedoms, and how people in Taiwan should respond to what that law implies for them.
Speakers
- Wu Renhua (lead speaker): Based in Taiwan, he teaches a course on researching the truth of the June 4th incident at Soochow University and National Chung Cheng University. A scholar of historical documents and a participant in and witness to the 1989 democracy movement, he has long been involved in China’s democracy movement and in June 4th archival research. His books include The Bloody Clearing of Tiananmen Square, Declassifying the June 4th Massacre: The Martial Law Troops of the June 4th Incident, and A Day-by-Day Record of the Tiananmen Incident.
- Yu-Jie Chen (discussant): Assistant Research Professor at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, an Affiliated Scholar at the US-Asia Law Institute of NYU School of Law, and a JSD of NYU School of Law. She researches international human rights law, focusing on human rights, international law and international relations, with China, Taiwan and cross-strait relations as her subjects, and was among the first Global Academic Fellows at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law.
- Chiang Min-yen (江旻諺) (discussant): A Taiwanese researcher and social activist, a researcher at the Economic Democracy Union and Secretary-General of the Taiwan Citizen Front, working to resist China’s annexation of Taiwan and to build social solidarity.
- Yang Kang (楊剛) (moderator): Research specialist at Covenants Watch.