Can Hong Kong and its universities recover?
Universities have played an important role in social movements around the world. Some became bastions of reform. Some led uprisings. Others were pulled into uprisings that devastated the cities in which they were located. Some cities and their universities have come out of it stronger; others never fully recovered. Among the earliest were the University of Paris Uprising of 1229 and the Beijing May 4 Movement of 1919 led by Peking and other universities. More...