‘China’s Rebel City’ – a no-holds-barred documentary on Hong Kong protests

Name: Hong Kong protests – China's Rebel City: Part 1 – Marching into the Unknown
Uploaded: 2020-11-17T11:10:57.000Z
Duration: 13 min 20 s
Description: Hong Kong protests – China's Rebel City: Part 1 – Marching into the Unknown

Four-part account of 2019’s tumultuous events features expertise and ground-zero reporting from SCMP’s award-winning journalists

Production draws on hundreds of hours of Post footage and released to coincide with anniversary of PolyU siege, one of the most violent episodes of last year’s unrest

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Hong Kong protests – China's Rebel City: Part 1 – Marching into the Unknown

SCMP Reporters

Published: 7:10pm, 17 Nov 2020Updated: 2:54pm, 19 Nov 2020

The South China Morning Post presents a comprehensive new documentary about Hong Kong’s tumultuous anti-government protests of 2019, as the city marks a year since a climactic showdown at a university campus.

The hour-long production, titled China’s Rebel City, combines the access, expertise and on-the-ground reporting of award-winning Post journalists to deliver a no-holds-barred account of the events that pushed the city to the brink and reshaped its political landscape.

The documentary, a companion piece to the book Rebel City: Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire , published in June, is being released in four parts.

The first instalment was released on Tuesday at 7pm on several online platforms. Viewers can access the video through the following links: scmp.com, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.

The documentary offers insights gleaned from exclusive interviews with key stakeholders to deliver an exhaustive examination of the greatest social and political upheaval the city has gone through in modern times.

It is drawn from hundreds of hours of video footage collected by Post journalists, frequently at significant risk to their own safety as they witnessed the often violent confrontations between mostly young protesters and riot police.

Starting from the very first protests triggered by the government’s ill-fated extradition bill, it goes on to chronicle and explain the defining moments of the social upheaval, and ends with the imposition of the national security law by Beijing and what it means for the city’s future.