My friend Yan has started a blog devoted mostly to the democracy movement in Hong Kong. Included are her personal responses to participating in the protests and a wealth of links to news sources, opinion, and images. She writes from beneath the shadow of Tiananmen Square in June, 1989, and I don't think the kinship with that history will be lost on anyone who remembers.

As a first-hand witness to the blossoming and crushing of the Democracy movement in Beijing in May and June of 1989, I will probably be writing more on this, both because over the last year I have felt a slowly mounting desire to reflect, and because Yan has asked me to help contribute.

Elsewhere on her site are a number of images of last weekend's protest that drew 500,000.

Via Yan, more blogs paying close attention to what's going on in Hong Kong: T Salon, Reoriented, and Gweilo Diaries.

If you're following events in HK and China, do check these out as there's some passionate, first-person coverage that you won't find in places like this (link via Instapundit).

For the record, I think the guy at Gwielo Diaries is a dick. Supposedly he has thoughtful insights on politics but you have to wade through a bunch of his sexist, infantile remarks about everything. So I have never actually got to the clever bits. Don't know why but he's really popular, but although I can't say that people shouldn't go to his site. Pieter didn't get to it from my page la...

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