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Podcast from NPR
Protests In Hong Kong Have Mobilized Residents From All Walks Of Life
Summary
This coverage illustrates Hong Konger’s determination and courage in a 22-week protest. With the raging yelling as opening for this podcast, the defenders were still attacked by tear gas and other serious, severe violence with the detailed description of how they run away and how they arm themselves. To team up against the terror, there were different roles in this protest, such as front liner to use some “basic arm” to protest other people from the police, and some ordinary resident donating and providing medical care. But what’s more horrible, people could not have the freedom of speech and only spoke as an initial to hide their identity in this podcast. Even in this dangerous moment, Hong Kongers used their profession, dedicated to the protest with time, and realized the conflict remained unsolved would not stop according to the interviews. Through this coverage, we can tell that they identified themselves as “Hong Konger” with sentimentality of “the person is the city, and the city is my home” and still fight on.
Vocabulary
1. disperse: spread in a large scale
Example: Riot police soon fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
New sentence: Those flash mobs disperse in just a few seconds! How can they make it?
2. paralegal: someone who works in a law company but is not a lawyer
Example: That's Karen, a paralegal and a regular protest attendee.
New sentence: My paralegal is nice and she can relate why I want a divorce to have a new life. So touchy.
3. barricades: a pile of objects that stops people from moving forward
Example: They pull out signs to build street barricades and rip up bricks to throw during increasingly violent clashes.
New sentence: Your depression is not a barricades from a better life. It is a reminder for you to repair and rest.
4. haul: moving thing
Example: You can call them shooters. So they are hauling bricks. They're hauling firebombs outside.
New sentence: We can haul all the stuff from your home from Taipei to Hsinchu but it might take five turns by car, which is not worth the time and gas.
5. binoculars: two tubes with glasses for people to look far and clear, usually use in theater and sky-looking
Example: And then, also, they'll have - what's that, again? - whistles - yes - which are taking binoculars or trying to decipher how the police are going to work or how they're planning.
New sentence: You literally look like a pervert with those binoculars looking outside the window.
6. decipher: understand the meaning that is hidden
Example: And then, also, they'll have - what's that, again? - whistles - yes - which are taking binoculars or trying to decipher how the police are going to work or how they're planning.
New sentence: You wouldn’t decipher the plot the very last page of this thriller! This is such a must read.
7. sprint: to run extremely fast
Example: A volunteer medic in a bright yellow vests sprints over and administers aid. His backpack is stuffed with vials of saline to treat tear gas and bandages for splints.
New sentence: Jason sprinted like leopard to class because one absence would make a reduction on a scale in the class.
8. splint: a long, firm thing to sustain limb or finger
Example: A volunteer medic in a bright yellow vests sprints over and administers aid. His backpack is stuffed with vials of saline to treat tear gas and bandages for splints.
New sentence: He probably cannot move without that splint for a while. Who would have guessed that he would miss that ball?
9. eerie: a frightening and strange way
Example: An eerie normalcy quickly returns to a fatigued city. I'm meeting T, a volunteer human rights monitor.
New sentence: Can you hear the eerie sound back in the hostel? I think we’d better move out of this haunted house.
10. normalcy = normality, the average, easy to be seen stuff
Example: An eerie normalcy quickly returns to a fatigued city. I'm meeting T, a volunteer human rights monitor.
New sentence: Now the exploit of labor and time is seemed as normalcy in our generation. Hopelessness is also another.
Comprehensive question
1. Hong Kong is totally under control of Beijing government without any protest right now. (T/F)
2. How do Hong Kongers hide their identity in this coverage?
3. How would you describe the situation in Hong Kong with the vocabulary we have learnt in this podcast?
4. For how many weeks have Hong Kongers been on a strike?
5. How would you interpret the last sentence in this podcast, “The last four months of protests have felt like mourning a person that's dying in slow motion, says T, except that person is a city, and that city is her home”?
Answer
1. F
2. They use initial to hide their identity in this coverage.
3. Multiple possible answers. Hong Kong is an “eerie” place with the overacted violence of the police right now. It is not hard to “decipher” the purpose of the police and the government……
4. 22 weeks
5. Multiple possible answers. We should protect this home like we protect our home and family. We should stand with our motherland……
Critique:
I was keep searching for any podcast with a rather long-term, deep podcast about Hong Kong’s protest against Extradition Bill recently and I was so happy that I can finally hear about it! (By the way, I like the journalist, Emily Feng. She’s such a rising star in journalism.)
This podcast is super amazing because it doesn’t sassily raise too much hatred toward China government or the police. Instead, its word choice honors Hong Konger’s virtue in a very reasonable way, for instance, with the details beyond the protest with the smoke scene, leaked information on pro-Beijing website, and the clever strategies to win over this war managed by people. Hong Kongers suddenly have the fullest image of “No rebellious people but the corrupted government” （沒有暴徒，只有暴政）and both the journalist and Hong Kongers earn my deepest respect.
I heard about the protest when I was still abroad. My heart just broke. I could not believe that a government could hurt their people defending democracy and freedom. And this unbeliever and unacceptable violence alarmed me with the imagination that this event could evolve into another Tien An Men Event （天安門事件）and White Terror in Taiwan. Luckily, the courageous Hong Kongers have united in different professions and generations as the coverage has revealed to shout their anger and determination against authoritarian. I didn’t know what I as English major could do but I stepped out. I was in 929 Taiwan-Hong Kong Rally as Interpreter to support those protesters in Taiwan and Hong Kong and spread the information to other non-Mandarin speakers interested in this issue. Comparing to people in the first line, what I did was almost nothing! I will still try with the skills I have! The intense, bitter feelings within me still make me upset, but it also made me stand up for other suffering people and for my own conscience! #PrayForHongKong #ActionForHongKong
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