No taboo topics, scholars say, as they launch first ever academic journal on Hong Kong
Editors seek to gather local and overseas research on city and examine its future as 2047 approaches
A group of Hong Kong scholars have joined forces to launch the first academic journal dedicated to studies on the city, aiming to gather local and overseas research about Hong Kong.
The biannual publication also seeks to examine the sense of uncertainty about the future of Hong Kong as the year 2047 approaches, when Beijing’s promise of a high degree of autonomy for the city expires.
The editors are looking to “define and document” the transition, stressing that there will be “no taboos” and nothing too sensitive to publish.
Tammy Ho Lai-ming, founding co-editor of the journal and an assistant professor teaching literature at Baptist University, said there had been a revived interest in Hong Kong among academics in recent years. The previous surge of interest was when China resumed sovereignty over the former British colony in 1997.