Lily Ho

Lily Ho writes pseudonymously about Chinese politics. She is currently based in Hong Kong, and has also spent considerable time in Taiwan and China.

The right to Hong Kong

The protest camps have been cleared. But Hong Kong’s Occupy movement has laid bare the struggle for space that rages across the city.

By Lily Ho

/ 23 Feb 2015

With peace and love: civil disobedience in Hong Kong

Western media outlets have described Hong Kong’s accelerated wave of unrest as predominantly led by students. It has a much wider base than that. Months of steady canvassing and campaigning on the streets, and a promotion of emotive symbolism over violence, have garnered enormous sympathy for the

By Lily Ho

/ 29 Sep 2014