Umbrellas and Sunflowers: Student Movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan

UC Berkeley presents Ming Sing, Yun Chung Chen, and Hsin-Hsing Chen's talk on student movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Panel Discussion: Center for Chinese Studies

Speakers: Professor Ming SING 成名, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Professor CHEN Yun Chung 陳允中, Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Professor Hsin-Hsing Chen 陳信行, Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih-Hsin University, Taiwan

The three speakers on this panel are all experienced academic-activists with deep knowledge about Hong Kong, Taiwan and the two student movements for democracy that have galvanized international attention. They will provide the broad political economic backgrounds to the rise of these movements and analyze their internal dynamics, strategies and cultures.

Document (PDF): Biographical material of speakers