https://www.scmp.com/rss/501934/feed Daniel Vukovich, associate professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, is the author of the books China and Orientalism (2012) and Illiberal China (2019). He is the director of the M.A. programme in Literary and Cultural Studies. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Cooler heads will be needed for Hong Kong to think through the main issue behind the rejection of the now-dead extradition bill. It is a political but also a historical, intellectual, and emotional issue: not just the rule of law but our real relations with the mainland, and its real if inchoate sovereignty. The Basic Law is here to stay, but it has also become apparent that, not unlike a piece of literature, it means different things to different people and has fundamental ambiguities: for... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3024936/hong-kong-has-china-problem-we-dont-talk-and-think-deeply-about?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3024936/hong-kong-has-china-problem-we-dont-talk-and-think-deeply-about?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:30:10 +0000