Political Censorship in British Hong Kong
Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842â1997)
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About This Book
Drawing on archival materials, Michael Ng challenges the widely accepted narrative that freedom of expression in Hong Kong is a legacy of British rule of law. Demonstrating that the media and schools were pervasively censored for much of the colonial period and only liberated at a very late stage of British rule, this book complicates our understanding of how Hong Kong came to be a city that championed free speech by the late 1990s. With extensive use of primary sources, the free press, freedom of speech and judicial independence are all revealed to be products of Britain's China strategy. Ng shows that, from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, Hong Kong's legal history was deeply affected by China's relations with world powers. Demonstrating that Hong Kong's freedoms drifted along waves of change in global politics, this book offers a new perspective on the British legal regime in Hong Kong.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Punitive Censorship and Libel Lawsuits against the Press
- 2 âReading Every Lineâ: Era of the Daily Vetting of Newspaper Proofs
- 3 âCommunist China Now Contiguous to Hong Kongâ: Censorship Imposed by the âFree Worldâ
- 4 âPatriotism to You Can Be Revolutionary Heresy to Usâ: Hardened Control of Media, Schools and Entertainment
- 5 Preparing to Negotiate with China: Overt Loosening and Covert Control
- 6 Liberating Hong Kong for China: De-silencing the City
- Conclusion and Epilogue
- Glossary of Chinese Newspapers
- Bibliography
- Index