Author: Victoria Tin-bor Hui | Journal of Democracy

Victoria Tin-bor Hui is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. She blogs on Hong Kong at victoriatbhui.wordpress.com.

October 2020, Volume 31, Issue 4

Crackdown: Hong Kong Faces Tiananmen 2.0

Victoria Tin-bor Hui

Liberty flourished in Hong Kong, but the Chinese Communist Party has crushed it. Beijing wants “capitalism without freedom” in the city, but can there be one without the other?

April 2015, Volume 26, Issue 2

Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: The Protests and Beyond

Victoria Tin-bor Hui

The demonstrations of late 2014 captured the world’s attention with their scale, passion, and resourcefulness, but in the end were unable to move dug-in local and national authorities. Yet time is still on the side of the demonstrators.