Benny Tai

Benny Tai is associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, where he studies constitutional development and the rule of law. In 2014, he was one of the leaders of the Occupy Central movement and the Umbrella Movement striving for the introduction of universal suffrage in Hong Kong.

April 2019, Volume 30, Issue 2

30 Years After Tiananmen: Hong Kong Remembers

It was the impact of Tiananmen that made the democracy movement in Hong Kong a mass phenomenon. Today, the democratic cause in Hong Kong remains linked to the democratic cause in China as a whole.