https://www.scmp.com/rss/10296/feed Chan Kwok Bun is University Adjunct Professor at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, and founder and chairman of Chan Institute of Social Studies. Author or editor of 50 books, he is former head of the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore, and former chair professor and head of the Department of Sociology at the Hong Kong Baptist University. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Perusing the headlines of newspapers chosen at random, one might almost be led to believe that the world’s leaders are engaged in a secret contest among themselves to see who can reach the lowest depths of unpopularity in the shortest possible time. Those who call Hong Kong home would certainly insist that Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor belongs at the very head of that list. Why has the uppermost echelon of the political class consistently failed to gauge the temperature of public... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3097630/hong-kongs-crises-could-have-silver-lining-reform-executive-council?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3097630/hong-kongs-crises-could-have-silver-lining-reform-executive-council?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Aug 2020 01:30:17 +0000 I was born a refugee, in 1950, when my family, along with hundreds of thousands of other Chinese people, was making its way from China to Hong Kong. My father, a self-made man and a major landlord in his village, lost everything practically overnight. As a child growing up in Hong Kong, I experienced poverty, but not the feeling of being a refugee - in the sense of feeling far from 'home' and an outsider in society subject to discrimination and hostility - probably because there were so many... https://www.scmp.com/article/442037/plight-stranger?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/442037/plight-stranger?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:00 +0000