Shui-Yin Sharon Yam

Shui-Yin Sharon Yam, a diasporic Hong Konger, teaches rhetoric at the University of Kentucky and is the author of Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship.

Articles by Shui-Yin Sharon Yam
A view from Hong Kong of the skyline of Yantian, a district in the neighboring mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen, on Sept. 19.
A view from Hong Kong of the skyline of Yantian, a district in the neighboring mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen, on Sept. 19.

Beijing’s Hong Kong Fables Have Unhappy Endings
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Shui-Yin Sharon Yam
Jimmy Lai supporters hold copies of the Apple Daily newspaper
Jimmy Lai supporters hold copies of the Apple Daily newspaper

Hong Kong Is a Local Tragedy, Not a Geopolitical Shuttlecock
Argument
Shui-Yin Sharon Yam, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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