Gloria Chang Explained

Gloria Chang Wan-ki (張韻琪) was the former president of The Hong Kong University Students' Union (2000), who was a main critic of the university leaders during the "Pollgate" controversy concerning government pressure on Robert Chung Ting-yiu, who conducted polls.[1] [2]

She was a major contributor to the resignation of the former Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Professor Cheng Yiu-chung.[3] [4] Gloria Chang has been arrested for "illegal assembly" when protesting university fees in 2000.[5] [6] As of February 2007, she was working at Greenpeace Hong Kong as a climate and energy campaigner.[7] [8] She is also a Roman Catholic.[9]

Chang, along with HKU politics professor Joseph Chan were the middlemen in coordinating the televised debate between protest leaders and government officials amid the 2014 Umbrella Movement.[10] She opposed the confrontational, non-cooperative approach of radical protesters and called for dialogue and compromise on both sides.

Notes and References

  1. News: Activists Vs. Tycoons. https://web.archive.org/web/20010424171433/http://cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/1208/cover.hk_profile.html. dead. 2001-04-24. 2000-12-08. Asiaweek Vol. 26 No. 46. 2009-04-07.
  2. News: Livelihood Rules. https://web.archive.org/web/20050515191509/http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0922/nat.hongkong.html. dead. 2005-05-15. Chung. Yulanda. Asiaweek Vol. 26 No. 37. 2009-04-07.
  3. Book: University of Hong Kong. Growing with Hong Kong: the University and its graduates: the first 90 years. Hong Kong University Press. 2003. 290–291. 962-209-613-1. 2009-04-07.
  4. News: Academic connections. 2008-02-21. The Standard. 2009-04-07. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110604121203/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=4&art_id=61888&sid=17694863&con_type=1&d_str=20080221&fc=7. 2011-06-04.
  5. News: Activist, students face prosecution threat. Lau. Eli. Loo, Grace. 2000-09-28. The Standard. 2009-04-07.
  6. News: Force's summer of discontent. Schloss. Glenn. 2000-10-06. South China Morning Post. 2009-04-07. But student leader Gloria Chang Wan-ki, one of the students arrested on both occasions,.... 23 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120223052253/http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.06f0b401397a029733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=a6d82eb0503b1110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&s=Archive. dead.
  7. News: Work is a passion, not a chore, for Greenpeace energy activist . . 31 October 2004 . 2009-04-06 .
  8. Web site: Chief Executive prattles climate change | Greenpeace China . February 2, 2007 . Press Release . Greenpeace China . Greenpeace Campaigner Gloria Chang criticizes, “HK’s inaction on the issue...." . 2009-04-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070522200224/http://www.greenpeace.org/china/en/press/release/chief-executive-prattles-clima-2 . May 22, 2007 .
  9. Web site: http://www.hkdavc.com/god/v2-god-com7.html. zh:始終係天主 . 2001-06-13. Hong Kong Diocesan Audio-Visual Centre. Chinese. 2009-04-07.
  10. Cheung . Chor-yung . 2017 . "One Country, Two Systems" after the Umbrella Movement: Problems and Prospects . Asian Education and Development Studies . 6 . 4 . 389 . 2046-3162 . 10.1108/AEDS-10-2015-0055 .

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