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Creative community comes to grips with new censorship landscape and complaints from government supportersObservers see shades of mainland’s Cultural Revolution as films are blocked, books are targeted

New government guidelines have been enforced to allow Hong Kong authorities to censor films on the basis of safeguarding national security. The updated censorship rules gazetted on Friday effectively allow censors to pull films they deem to be a...

Hong Kong Censors Issue Warning Over Tiananmen Film Screenings Vivienne Chow, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Hong Kong film censors issued a warning to the city’s hospital workers union on Thursday evening over the screening two films related to the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown. “I Have Graduated” is a 1992 documentary about the last batch of university students who experienced the 1989 Beijing protests, and was produced by a collective of filmmakers known as SWYC. “Conjuga...