The (Tiananmen) Shadow Looming Over Hong Kong

by Daniel Garrett

Moments in time captured during, and surrounding, Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen remembrance activities and vigils under Communist China’s looming shadow of the 64 massacre and the on-going Murder of Hong Kong.

Daniel Garrett is an author, photographer, political scientist, and visual sociologist documenting Chinese security politics and securitisation of Hong Kong. He has a nearly twenty-year engagement with the city and is a photographic contributor to Hong Kong Free Press. A doctoral graduate of City University of Hong Kong, Dan’s dissertation investigated the power politics of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ under the People’s Republic’s new National Security with Chinese Characteristics framework and the escalating conflicts between China and Hong Kong. His first book, Counter-Hegemonic Resistance in China’s Hong Kong: Visualizing Protest in the City, interrogated the Region’s Pre-Umbrella Revolution protest culture.

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