My Take | When it comes to Taiwan affairs, leave it to Beijing to deal with the word ‘national’
China’s foreign and military affairs are none of Hong Kong’s business, yet our bureaucrats made ridiculous demands of Taiwanese artist Suie Lo Shuk-yin
Home affairs chief Lau Kong-wah said the arts community and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department enjoyed mutual trust and respect.
Somehow I doubt that. The fact he was standing in front of reporters yesterday rather indicated the opposite.
Some busybodies from the department apparently asked the producer of an arts group not to publish the full name of her Taiwanese alma mater because it contained the word “national”.
The artist, Suie Lo Shuk-yin, was responsible for the production Three Novels: The Third Lie, staged at Tsuen Wan Town Hall last week.
Lo graduated from the Taipei National University of the Arts, but LCSD staff demanded that the word “national”, both in Chinese and English, be dropped in the programme booklet.
With reason, Lo refused. Instead, she rewrote the programme by not mentioning the university at all, though she printed a picture that showed its full name.