Episode Summary:

Where did the 2019 Hong Kong protests come from? What has been fueling the protests? What is Hong Kong fighting for? What does it really want from Beijing? What do mainland Chinese think of Hong Kong protests and why? How do Hong Kong protests affect the U-M campus?

We asked two U-M students from Hong Kong and one professor who was born and raised in
mainland China to share their memories and answer the above questions.

1. Nicole Wu, Ph.D. student in political science
2. Edgar Chung, undergraduate student in the College of Engineering
3. Xiaohong Xu, assistant professor of sociology