{"id":40236,"date":"2021-12-31T10:08:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T01:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/31\/atmosphere-of-fear-hong-kong-students-lament-loss-of-tiananmen-statues"},"modified":"2021-12-31T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T01:08:34","slug":"atmosphere-of-fear-hong-kong-students-lament-loss-of-tiananmen-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40236","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Atmosphere of fear\u2019: Hong Kong students lament loss of Tiananmen statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students say the recent destruction of massacre monuments is a manifestation of a new and uneasy culture on campus<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Mak, a recent graduate of law and literature, had walked past the fiery orange monument between classes for five years. A month after her graduation ceremony at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), two nights before Christmas, workers erected barricades around the statue. Under the cover of darkness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/22\/hong-kong-memorial-to-tiananmen-victims-may-be-imminently-removed\">they cut it down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute disgrace that HKU removed the Pillar of Shame so callously and so furtively,\u201d Mak says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/31\/atmosphere-of-fear-hong-kong-students-lament-loss-of-tiananmen-statues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students say the recent destruction of massacre monuments is a manifestation of a new and uneasy culture on campusSophie Mak, a recent graduate of law and literature, had walked past the fiery orange monument between classes for five years. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,80,431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40237,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40236\/revisions\/40237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}