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Film Screening in Hong Kong Tests University's Tolerance

Iris Tong

   HONG KONG - Five years ago, on the eve of the Lunar New Year, Hong Kong
   authorities arrested about 50 people when crowds tried to protect
   street hawkers selling fishballs in the bustling Kowloon neighborhood
   of Mong Kok.

   One of the most densely populated business neighborhoods in the world,
   Mong Kok is jammed with restaurants, bars, small shops and markets, a
   street scene scented by the aromas wafting from a buffet of food
   stalls, many of them illegal but nonetheless beloved.

   "The street stalls are very much part of Hong Kong'¯culture, but
   they've been disappearing as part of the process of redevelopment and
   urban renewal," Fuchsia Dunlop, a Chinese food expert, told The
   Guardian soon after about 100 people were injured in the so-called
   Fishball Revolution, a mass action [1]widely seen as pushback against
   Beijing.

   That anti-Beijing attitude is what saw a campus film event unspooling
   into a tense sequence of events in Hong Kong this week and last.

   It began when the Hong Kong University Students' Union announced its
   plans to show Lost in the Fumes, a documentary featuring Edward Leung,
   an activist now serving a six-year term for his role in the Fishball
   Revolution. He emerged as a key figure in the Hong Kong pro-democracy
   movement with Time magazine calling him the [2]"spiritual leader" of
   the mass protests in 2019.

   The university objected, issuing a statement Jan.28 saying the
   screening "risks'¦breaching the law." The administration suggested
   canceling or modifying the event.

References

   1. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/feb/09/hong-kong-fish-ball-revolution-china-riot
   2. https://time.com/collection/time-100-next-2019/5718822/edward-leung/

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