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Hong Kong's National Security Law has drastically changed the academic experience in the city.

An anatomy of erasure

Abstract. This article examines the Atlantropa Project of the German architect Herman Sörgel as a window onto the interconnected histories of environmental anxi

Academics in Hong Kong find ways, more subtle than in the past, to make their points. But many fear the new national security law.

Facing lower tolerance for free speech, academics and students share their approaches on retaining autonomy and avoiding unwanted scrutiny

Facing lower tolerance for free speech, academics and students share their approaches on retaining autonomy and avoiding unwanted scrutiny

Beijing is using dismissals, arrests, and a repressive new law to curtail students’ and professors’ rights.

Thus, the population was shaken up, forced into silence, and left without any possible leaders of resistance. So it was that ‘wisdom’ was instilled, that former ties and friendships were cut off. ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, I Can moral life survive dictatorship? When a government intimidates its subjects; when it sows mistrust among them; when it penalizes virtue and incentivizes servility, how might men and women keep faith with themselves and their fellows? Citizens of democratic states ten...