We also need to focus on the implications of the forthcoming law for #HongKong research & teaching abt China. Presumably all HK academic institutions now have to worry abt many aspects of their research, incl. cooperation with foreign academic institutions & publishers. 1/3

The Communist Party's “seven unmentionables” etc. will spread their tentacles to the HKSAR. This process will make people want to review the early post-’49 years on the Mainland and the ways the Party took control in a very different situation. 2/3

It tempts me even to learn more about the early days of Hitler’s gradual takeover of the formerly democratic German government. 3/3