In 2014, Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement grabbed international headlines, shut down the city’s largest commercial districts, and generated concern about Hong Kong’s political future. Three years after calm was restored, questions remain: what is the political mood on Hong Kong campuses? Are freedoms being gradually eroded? What is the future of One Country-Two Systems under newly elected Chief Executive Carrie Lam? On May 15, 2017, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Professor David Zweig will join the National Committee for a discussion of political resistance, academic freedom, reverse brain drain, and the current contradictions between the former British colony and Beijing.

David Zweig is chair professor for the Division of Social Science and director at the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also an adjunct professor at the National University of Defense Technology’s School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Changsha (Hunan), as well as vice-president of the Center on China’s Globalization in Beijing. Dr. Zweig is a regular commentator on Hong Kong politics for CNN, Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera, Radio and Television Hong Kong, and writes about Hong Kong politics in the South China Morning Post.

Dr. Zweig received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.

Register here: https://www.ncuscr.org/content/hong-kong-and-beijing-complicated-relationship