The Post-1997 Hong Kong Press
How Free and for How Long
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11069357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Ching (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-10 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Affairs An American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-7678 • E-ISSN: 1940-1590 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00927679909598815 |
| OpenAlex | W1984359701 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
report was entitled The Die Is Cast: Freedom of Expression in Hong Kong on the Eve of the Handover to China. Fortunately, that somber assessment has not been borne out by events in the last twenty-one months. No newspapers have been shut down by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government (or by soldiers of the People's Liberation Army), and no journalists have been thrown into prison. (That is not to say that no newspapers have shut down or that no politicians have been jailed. Within weeks of the handover an afternoon paper, the New Evening Post, folded. Ironically, however, it was a pro-Communist paper [an evening edition of Ta Kung Pao]; it was the only afternoon paper left in Hong Kong, and it folded because it had been losing money for years. legislator Chim Pui-chung was jailed after being found guilty of fraud.) But the widely predicted political disasters, including dramatic curtailment of rights and freedoms, have failed to materialize. Initially, the prophets of gloom
China · Communism · Freedom of the press · Gloom · Government (linguistics · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Shut down · Engineering · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |