In Conversation

STEPHEN DAVIES: “The myth of Hong Kong is the hardscrabble person who began life in a squatter hut and has made it to a senior civil servant level or a comfortable boss of an SME, or runs a restaurant, and this just isn’t true any more.”

FERNANDO CHEU...

"It’s always the looking backwards as well as the looking forwards that makes human beings sane and social, and makes life liveable. We talk about the advance in science and technology, we talk about the great leap forward in material goods and technol...

STEPHEN DAVIES: “Do you think the functional constituency idea, as it’s been implemented in Hong Kong, is in principle okay, or do you think, like many thoughtful people, the functional constituencies should never been there in the first place? “

DAVID...

"For the moment, for contemporary purposes, we really need archives for governments to be accountable. So that’s one thing. But as a historian who loves archives, I mean, can you imagine that 20 years later we just won’t be able to find anything on Hon...

"The Macanese community were identified as Eurasians, Catholics, but then this notion was diluted in time. Nowadays, the Macanese themselves, they don’t know: “What the hell am I?” They keep asking this kind of thing.”

MIGUEL DE SENNA FERNANDES

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"We’re talking about 2017. The system needs to change in Hong Kong. At the moment the system seems to be broken, it seems to be stuck. If we continue in the old way - 1,200 people electing the Chief Executive - no matter how good he or she is, it’s a ...

Stephen Davies: “Do we need another July 1st March when there are 500,000 people out on the street to focus minds?”

Anson Chan: “I hope it won’t come to that, but this I can say with certainty: If this time around the SAR government and Beijing do not...

"Hong Kong’s really lagging behind. Hong Kong is not known for innovation because we don’t believe in innovation. We believe in property speculation and stock speculation." Ada Wong

Ada Wong is a solicitor, a former member of the Urban Council and fo...

"Once I made a will for myself, just after the handover. I said: “The first thing is I will not commit suicide. So, if I am found in suspicious circumstances … Secondly, I will not go to the mainland. So if you find me being arrested in the mainland, i...

‘As soon as it became a controversial subject, the ministers basically ran away, disappeared over the horizon, led, if that’s the right word, by Henry, of course. When I actually asked him: “Who is the minister for Harbour Fest?” The reply was: “Stop d...