{"id":380,"date":"2012-09-02T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T07:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=380"},"modified":"2012-09-02T09:39:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T07:39:20","slug":"elections-brainwashing-and-hunger-strike-hong-kong-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Elections, brainwashing and hunger strike \u2013\u00a0Hong Kong thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arriving in Hong Kong to work a year at City University of Hong Kong<\/a>\u00a0(\u9999\u6e2f\u57ce\u5e02\u5927\u5b78),\u00a0it is definitely time to start blogging again. The first week has been full of practical things, but also many thoughts on Hong Kong society as I and my family face the various bureaucratic and other obstacles to overcome before a more ordinary life can start.<\/p>\n

One major event these days is the election to the Legislative Council<\/a>\u00a0 (\u9999\u6e2f\u7acb\u6cd5\u6703) taking place on 9 September.<\/p>\n

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Hong Kong voters can cast two votes, for geographical and functional constituencies. Will that give them more influence?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interestingly, my new colleagues and other local friends\u00a0have yet to mention the elections in our conversations. Newspapers and other media, however, are full of interesting stories. Just a few days ago several people were sentenced for election fraud<\/a>, in regard to district elections in 2011. Reports specially pointed out one woman as having a PRC background, and speculated that she was ”brainwashed” as a child in mainland China<\/a>. She described herself as a ”Post-80<\/a> refusing to be brainwashed” (\u62d2\u7d55\u88ab\u6d17\u8166\u768480\u5f8c), but acknowledging her father’s ”patriotism and love of the party” (\u611b\u570b\u611b\u9ee8).<\/p>\n

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”Be on guard against pickpockets” \u63d0\u9632\u6252\u624b (grabbing ”freedom” \u81ea\u7531) and ”beware of brainwashing” \u5c0f\u5fc3\u6d17\u8166 \u2013 poster for the Civic Party (\u516c\u6c11\u9ee8)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

”Brainwashing” has become an issue after the government proposal for revision of the compulsory ”moral, civic and national education” course (\u5fb7\u80b2\u53ca\u570b\u6c11\u6559\u80b2\u79d1) for primary and middle schools. One proposed teaching material is called\u00a0The China Model: Handbook for Teaching National Conditions [Sentiments]<\/em>\u00a0(\u300a\u4e2d\u570b\u6a21\u5f0f\u300b\u570b\u60c5\u5c08\u984c\u6559\u5b78\u624b\u518a), which, among other things, describes the Communist Party of China (CPC) in very positive terms.<\/p>\n

This led to huge demonstrations in July, and recently \u2013 ahead of term start \u2013 protests outside the government buildings. A couple of middle school students even started a hunger strike (\u7d55\u98df)<\/a>. The\u00a0Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (\u9999\u6e2f\u6559\u80b2\u5c08\u696d\u4eba\u54e1\u5354\u6703) has also been especially outspoken on this issue, which has led to very harsh, but revealing comments from Beijing, voiced through Ta Kung Pao (\u5927\u516c\u5831) and relayed by China Daily<\/a>. It will be interesting to follow developments on-the-spot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arriving in Hong Kong to work a year at City University of Hong Kong\u00a0(\u9999\u6e2f\u57ce\u5e02\u5927\u5b78),\u00a0it is definitely time to start blogging again. The first week has been full of practical things, but also many thoughts on Hong Kong society as I and my family face the various bureaucratic and other obstacles to overcome before a more … <\/p>\n

Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa \u201dElections, brainwashing and hunger strike \u2013\u00a0Hong Kong thoughts\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okategoriserade"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2crM2-68","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}