November 14, 2024

Far East Currents

The Portuguese and Macanese Studies Project – U.C. Berkeley

Panic on Whitfield Road

The recent protests in Hong Kong were the latest among many that have occurred in the former British colony since the end of World War II. The infamous Red Guard riots of 1967, the annual commemoration of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, and the 2014 Umbrella Movement demonstrations were some of the more memorable. Other long forgotten demonstrations occurred soon after the war and were a direct result of mass movements of people leaving China that spiked Hong Kong’s population to unprecedented levels. The impact of those protests on different communities, including the Macanese, are now coming to light.

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