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Topic: After the Great Wave: Hong Kong and Hongkongers in the National Security Law Era
Speakers (Editors & Authors)

• WU Jieh-min, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
• CHAN Kin-man, Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
• CHEN Yu-jie, Associate Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
• LEUNG Kai-chi, Visiting Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
• CHENG Tsu-bang, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Fo Guang University

Discussants

• LUI Lake, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
• CHEN I-Chung, Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences
• WONG Natalie Wai-man, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, National Chengchi University

Time: 2025.09.12 14:30-16:30
Registration: https://forms.gle/vahU8Svh2vqqoeiE6
Venue: 8F, Room802, Institute of Sociology, South Wing, Humanities and Social
Sciences Building, Academia Sinica
Contact Ms.Lu, naomilu613ann@gmail.com

Brief：
Since 2019, Hong Kong's political landscape has been fundamentally transformed. Once the site of wave after wave of mass demonstrations that captured global attention, the city has, with the enactment of the National Security Law and related ordinances, witnessed a rapid contraction of public space. Both institutional and grassroots channels of participation have been drastically curtailed. Large-scale mobilizations have receded, leaving behind an atmosphere of repression, silence, and a turn toward more dispersed, underground, online, and individualized forms of political practice.

This volume, authored by scholars with long-standing engagement in Hong Kong's society and politics, maps the contours of the city under the National Security Law. It investigates how institutional restructuring and social adaptation unfold across diverse arenas, from economic structures and geopolitical conditions to civil society, media, and cultural memory. While the surface may appear stable, even subdued, beneath it individuals and communities continue to probe for spaces of action, sustaining values and collective memories under risk-laden conditions. Together, these dynamics capture both the persistence and transformation of Hong Kong in an era of unprecedented constraint.

Format: On-site session