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//A Cantopop star publicly supported Hong Kong protesters. So Beijing disappeared his music.

By AUGUST BROWN

The 2 million pro-democracy protesters who have flooded the streets of Hong Kong over the last few months have been tear-gassed, beaten by police and arrested arbitrarily. But many of the territory’s most famous cultural figures have yet to speak up for them. Several prominent musicians, actors and celebrities have even sided with the cops and the government in Beijing.

The protesters are demanding rights to fair elections and judicial reform in the semiautonomous territory. Yet action film star Jackie Chan, Hong Kong-born K-pop star Jackson Wang of the group GOT7 and Cantopop singers Alan Tam and Kenny Bee have supported the police crackdown, calling themselves “flag protectors.” Other Hong Kong cultural figures have stayed silent, fearing for their careers.

The few artists who have spoken out have seen their economic and performing prospects in mainland China annihilated overnight. Their songs have vanished from streaming services, their concert tours canceled. But a few musicians have recently traveled to America to support the protesters against long odds and reprisals from China.

“Pop musicians want to be quiet about controversy, and on this one they’re particularly quiet,” said Anthony Wong Yiu-ming, 57, the singer and cofounder of the pioneering Hong Kong pop group Tat Ming Pair.

Wong is a popular, progressive Cantopop artist — a Hong Kong Bryan Ferry or David Bowie, with lyrics sung in the territory’s distinct dialect. But he, along with such singer-actors as Denise Ho and Deanie Ip, have made democratic reforms the new cause of their careers, even at the expense of their musical futures in China. Wong’s on tour in the U.S. and will perform a solo show in L.A. on Tuesday.

“It’s rebelling against the establishment, and [most artists] just don’t want to,” Wong said. “Of course, I’m very disappointed, but I never expected different from some people. Freedom of speech and civil liberties in Hong Kong are not controversial. It’s basic human rights. But most artists and actors and singers, they don’t stand with Hong Kongers.”

Hong Kong protesters
Hundreds of people form a human chain at Victoria Peak in Hong Kong on Sept. 13.(Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)
The protests are an echo — and escalation — of the Occupy Central movement five years ago that turned into a broad pro-democracy effort known as the Umbrella Movement. Those protests, led by teenage activist Joshua Wong (no relation), rebelled against a new policy of Beijing pre-screening candidates for political office in Hong Kong to ensure party loyalty.

Protesters were unsuccessful in stopping those policies, but the movement galvanized a generation of activists.

These latest demonstrations were in response to a proposed policy of extraditing suspected criminals from Hong Kong to mainland China, which activists feared would undermine their territory’s legal independence and put its residents at risk. The protests now encompass a range of reforms — the withdrawal of the extradition bill, secured voting rights, police reform, amnesty for protesters and a public apology for how Beijing and police have portrayed the demonstrations.

Wong, already respected as an activist for LGBT causes in Hong Kong, is one of vanishingly few musicians to have put their futures on the line to push for those goals.

Wong’s group Tat Ming Pair was one of the most progressive Cantonese acts of the ’80s and ’90s (imagine a politically radical Chinese Depeche Mode). When Wong spoke out in favor of the Umbrella Movement at the time, he gained credibility as an activist but paid the price as an artist: His touring and recording career evaporated on the mainland.

The Chinese government often pressures popular services like Tencent (the country’s leading music-streaming service, with 800 million monthly users) to remove artists who criticize the government. Artists can find longstanding relationships with live promoters on ice and lucrative endorsement deals drying up.

“This government will do things to take revenge on you,” Wong said. “If you’re not obedient, you’ll be punished. Since the Umbrella Movement, I’ve been put on a blacklist in China. I anticipated that would happen, but what I did not expect was even local opportunities decreased as well. Most companies have some ties with mainland China, and they didn’t want to make their China partners unhappy, so they might as well stop working with us.”

Censorship is both overt and subtly preemptive, said Victoria Tin-bor Hui, a professor and Hong Kong native who teaches Chinese politics and history at the University of Notre Dame.

“Every time artists or stars say anything even remotely sympathetic to protesters or critical of the government, they get in trouble,” Hui said. “You can literally have your career ruined. Denise Ho, after she joined the Umbrella Movement, everything she had listed online or on shelves was taken off. Companies [including the cosmetics firm Lancôme] told her they would have nothing more to do with her, and she started doing everything on her own.”

So Wong and other artists like Ho have been pushing back where they can.

Wong’s recent single, “Is It a Crime,” questions Beijing crackdowns on all memorials of the Tiananmen Square massacre, especially in Hong Kong, where there was a robust culture of activism and memorials around that tragedy. The single, which feels akin to Pink Floyd’s expansive, ominous electronic rock, has been blacklisted on mainland streaming services and stores.

Wong plans to speak out to commemorate the anniversary of the Umbrella Movement on this tour as well.

“The government is very afraid of art and culture,” Wong said. “If people sing about liberty and freedom of speech, the government is afraid. When I sing about the anniversary of Tiananmen, is it a crime to remember what happened? To express views? I think the Chinese government wants to suppress this side of art and freedom.”

The fallout from his support of the protests has forced him to work with new, more underground promoters and venues. The change may have some silver linings, as bookers are placing his heavy synth-rock in more rebellious club settings than the Chinese casinos he’d often play stateside. (In L.A., he’s playing 1720, a downtown venue that more often hosts underground punk bands.)

“We lost the second biggest market in the world, but because of what we are fighting for, in a way, we gained some new fans. We met new promoters who are interested in promoting us in newer markets. It’s opened new options for people who don’t want to follow” the government’s hard-line approach, Wong said.

Hui agreed that while loyalty from pro-democracy protesters can’t make up for the lost income of the China market, artists should know that Hong Kongers will remember whose side they were on during this moment and turn out or push back accordingly.

“You make less money, but Hong Kong pro-democracy people say, ‘These are our own singers, we have to save them,’” Hui said. “They support their own artists and democracy as part of larger effort to blacklist companies that sell out Hong Kong.”

Ho testified before Congress last week to support Hong Kong’s protesters. “This is not a plea for so-called foreign interference. This is a plea for democracy,” Ho said in her speech. A new bill to ban U.S. exports of crowd-control technology to Hong Kong police has bipartisan support.

No Hong Kong artists are under any illusions that the fight to maintain democracy will be easy. Even the most outspoken protesters know the long odds against a Chinese government with infinite patience for stifling dissent. That’s why support from cultural figures and musicians can be even more meaningful now, Hui said.

“Artists, if they say anything, that cheers people on,” Hui said. “Psychologists say Hong Kong suffers from territory-wide depression. Even minor symbolic gestures from artists really lift people’s morale.”

Pro-democracy artists, like protesters, are more anxious than ever. They’ve never been more invested in these uprisings, but they also fear the worst from the mainland Chinese government. “If you asked me six months ago, I was not very hopeful,” Wong said. “But after what’s happened, even though the oppression is bigger, we are stronger and more determined than before.”

Anthony Wong Yiu-ming

Where: 1720, 1720 E. 16th St.
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday
Tickets: $55-$150
Info: 1720.la //

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#V162 #3DayRace

[ Race Results - 3-day Challenge / 3-day Race ]

The Victoria 162 series would not have been borne if not for the initial idea to launch a 3-day stage race in Hong Kong. 3-day competitions have the fewest participants of all races - but RD has the highest regard for each of those who run the 3-day.

This year, we have 13 brave souls starting - and 10 finished. It is a small crowd, but a definitively strong crowd. Their background ranges from multi-stage newbies, to MDS finishers, to PTL runners, to UFO and OTW winners and even a 4Deserts runner up, 2nd only to Wong Ho Chung. Other than runners from Hong Kong, there are also participants from UK and Japan.

Special thanks to Decathlon Hong Kong who provided the Camping gears.

:: Day 1 ::

8am Friday - Start. A rather smooth day, all 13 runners finished under a scorching mid-day sun on South Lantau Country Trail. One of the runners even got a sunburnt neck to boast with. Thomas and Canetti boasted the 3-day race Day-1 champion jersey, while Alfair and Dora took the 3-day Challenge one.

:: Day 2 ::

Morning call was 4:45am. At 5:40am, Driver team took the runners from Tung Chung Campsite to MTR by car, then they are on their own to take the first MTR train at 6:04am from Tung Chung to Lai King.

They were off together with the N80 runners at 7am sharp, with the goal to finish in 24 hours in Yau Tong.

As we all know by now, rain starts to kick in as our runners were in the TMS area in late afternoon, and temperature dropped to the tune of 10 degrees in a few hours. All runners were caught in the rain and suffered from complete wetness and for some, hypothermia. Thomas did not suffer much as he took only 14 hours to get to Yau Tong and arrived at 9pm when the rain was really pouring down hard; and with more gears than other day race runners, most 3-day runners weathered the storm and made it to N10, but unforunately two challenge runners dropped out at N7 and N8; another was forced to pull out at N9 with a swollen lower leg.

With Canetti surviving a second onset of heavy rain at dusk, and coming into Yau Tong at 6:25am - just half an hour left on the 24-hour cutoff - 10 of the 13 3-day runners survived a brutal night, and earned the right to rest till 9:30am to start Day 3.

:: Day 3 ::

Around 10am Terrence, who was escorting the survivors from Day 3 Campsite to take MTR to cross the harbour, uploaded a picture of the 10 3-day runners departing N10.

It was the remedy that RD needed, whom was bombarded with quitting calls, transport, missing markers and luggage queries all through the night. Seeing the 10 souls survived the freakish weather was a booster and brought a smile to the committee. (although RD was irritated when picrues of runners taking the lift up to MTR station was also shared - they were supposed to climb the long stairs from Cha Kwo Leng Road up to Yau Tong Station).

At 10:30, the 3-day runners arrived at H0. It was a pure adrenaline rush to see them walking into the start point area, and the committee all came out to hug them one by one. An announcement was made to note the H25 crowd of their arrival, and a bigger welcome from the 200 H25 runners followed. Mr "Blade runner" Fung, a finisher of 4Desert himself, posed and snapped pictures with the 3-day runners. All runenrs waited for the H25 start and at 11am, the 10 3-day runners were off to get the "fun-run" 25km done and aim for the sweet finish.

On to Joyful Path, climb Jardine's, stroll to the Peak, down to Pokfulam Road, just half a Mt Davis to climb before one final descend into Kennedy Town, and that's where the promising land of H5 lies waiting.

Thomas finished just as strong as the previous days, smashing the 25km course under 3 hours an won the 3-day race male by a large margin. Alfair finished 30mins after, taking home the 3-day challenge Male Champion, Sunny another 30mins later and soon one after another, all 3-day runners made it back before sunset.

Dora and Canetti were the sole female survivors in 3-day Challenge and 3-day Race respectively and Champion in each.

All Challenge runners were treated a grilled beef steak after finishing, served on a clothed table and candle light with Victoria harbour just behind them, as a sweet reward for all the hardship they endured and all the CP food they could not enjoy.

All 3-day finishers were ushered to the Victoria Boundary Stone, as a fitting end to the Victoria 162 3-day journey.

:: 3-day Results ::

3-day Challenge - Male
1st Sze Ho Lee 28:24:53 Hong Kong
2nd Taro Okamura 32:07:37 Japan
3rd Ming Kei Leung 34:12:07 Hong Kong

3-day Challenge - Female
1st Dora Chan 41:33:14 Hong Kong

3-day Race - Male
1st Shing Yip Lam 24:57:25 Hong Kong
2nd Chi Shing Sunny Lai 31:17:59 Hong Kong

3-day Race - Female
1st Canetti Chung 43:10:08 Hong Kong
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3-day Race - Team
1st TeamSHIRAKABA_JP - (Shuichi Dejima/Takuya Wakaoka) 37:40:59 Japan
--- Lo Tsz Him 38:01:18 Hong Kong

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This is the album of the journey of the 3-day stage race runners - 57/80/25km, through a hot Day 1 and a rainy, freezing Day 2, and a "fun run" from Joyful path onwards to Day 3. Campsite at Tung Chung and Yau Tong.

Hong Kong was a dream come true. In my youth, I grew up watching Vietnamese dubbed Hong Kong movie series that my parents rented with hundreds of VHS tapes. Later on, I moved onto watching Hong Kong movies and just grew in love with urban Asian culture. I finally got a chance to visit Hong Kong and it was one of the best trips I've ever had. I visited Victoria Harbor to the the Symphony of Lights. I went to the Nan Lian Gardens, the Lin Po Monastery with the giant buddha, and the Victoria Peak over looking the city below. My trip is no where near complete because of time issues, but I can't wait to see Hong Kong again.

For my Hong Kong food video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RUdp...

For my Hong Kong Fish street video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJz1_...

For my Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clSC5...

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