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===Against Chinese Moral and National education===
===Against Chinese Moral and National education===
{{main|Moral and national education}}
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It was formed as "Scholarism – The Alliance Against [[Moral and national education|Moral & National Education]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholarism.com/基本資料/|script-title=zh:基本資料|language=Chinese|work=學民思潮 Scholarism}}</ref> Scholarism is the first [[pressure group]] against the pro-Communist "Moral and National Education" school curriculum<ref>Wilfred Chan and Yuli Yang, [[CNN]] [http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/21/world/asia/hong-kong-joshua-wong-democracy-protest/ Echoing Tiananmen, 17-year-old Hong Kong student prepares for democracy battle] 28 September 2014</ref> put forward by the Hong Kong Government. The group is known for being one of the few organisations that protested outside the [[Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region|Central Government Liaison Office]] after the [[Hong Kong July 1 marches|1 July march 2012]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Road closures a flashpoint during tense marches|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=2 July 2012}}</ref>
It was formed as "Scholarism – The Alliance Against [[Moral and national education|Moral & National Education]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholarism.com/基本資料/|script-title=zh:基本資料|language=Chinese|work=學民思潮 Scholarism}}</ref> Scholarism is the first student [[pressure group]] protested against the pro-Communist "Moral and National Education" school curriculum<ref>Wilfred Chan and Yuli Yang, [[CNN]] [http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/21/world/asia/hong-kong-joshua-wong-democracy-protest/ Echoing Tiananmen, 17-year-old Hong Kong student prepares for democracy battle] 28 September 2014</ref> put forward by the Hong Kong Government. The group was one of the few organisations took part in the protest outside the [[Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region|Central Government Liaison Office]] after the [[Hong Kong July 1 marches|1 July march 2012]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Road closures a flashpoint during tense marches|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=2 July 2012}}</ref>


Members of Scholarism launched a [[occupation (protest)|occupation protest]] at the [[Central Government Complex|Hong Kong government headquarters]] to force the government to retract its plans to introduce pro-Communist "Moral and National Education" as a compulsory subject between August and September 2012. Fifty members occupied the public park beneath the government offices, of which three began a [[hunger strike]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://hk.news.yahoo.com/70%E5%A4%9A%E5%90%8D%E5%AD%B8%E6%B0%91%E6%80%9D%E6%BD%AE%E6%88%90%E5%93%A1%E6%94%BF%E7%B8%BD%E5%A4%96%E7%B4%AE%E7%87%9F%E8%AB%8B%E9%A1%98-094400852.html|script-title=zh:70多名學民思潮成員政總外紮營請願|date=30 August 2012|language=Chinese}}</ref>
Members of Scholarism launched a [[occupation (protest)|occupation protest]] at the [[Central Government Complex|Hong Kong government headquarters]] to force the government to retract its plans to introduce the pro-Communist "Moral and National Education" as a compulsory subject between August and September 2012. Fifty members occupied the public park beneath the government offices, of which three began a [[hunger strike]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://hk.news.yahoo.com/70%E5%A4%9A%E5%90%8D%E5%AD%B8%E6%B0%91%E6%80%9D%E6%BD%AE%E6%88%90%E5%93%A1%E6%94%BF%E7%B8%BD%E5%A4%96%E7%B4%AE%E7%87%9F%E8%AB%8B%E9%A1%98-094400852.html|script-title=zh:70多名學民思潮成員政總外紮營請願|date=30 August 2012|language=Chinese}}</ref>


===Hong Kong Democratic movement===
===Hong Kong Democratic movement===

Revision as of 23:00, 12 March 2015

Scholarism
學民思潮
Formation29 May 2011[1]
TypeStudent activist group
HeadquartersHennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island
Location
  • Hong Kong
Region served
Hong Kong
Official language
Cantoneses
Convenor
Joshua Wong
Websitescholarism.com

Scholarism (Chinese: 學民思潮) is a Hong Kong student activist group formed on 29 May 2011 by a group of secondary school students.

Scholarism is considered "extremist" in the state-run Chinese media. Its leader, Joshua Wong, claims that he is named in China's Blue Paper on National Security as an internal threat to political stability and to the rule of the Communist Party of China.[2]

History

Students from Scholarism during the hunger strike against the National Education at the Hong Kong government headquarters in August 2012.
Scholarism in front of the government headquarters at Tamar in Hong Kong. (7 September 2012)
Scholarism at 2014 Hong Kong Class Boycott Campaign.

Against Chinese Moral and National education

Main article: Moral and national education

It was formed as "Scholarism – The Alliance Against Moral & National Education"[3] Scholarism is the first student pressure group protested against the pro-Communist "Moral and National Education" school curriculum[4] put forward by the Hong Kong Government. The group was one of the few organisations took part in the protest outside the Central Government Liaison Office after the 1 July march 2012.[5]

Members of Scholarism launched a occupation protest at the Hong Kong government headquarters to force the government to retract its plans to introduce the pro-Communist "Moral and National Education" as a compulsory subject between August and September 2012. Fifty members occupied the public park beneath the government offices, of which three began a hunger strike.[6]

Hong Kong Democratic movement

Main article: 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform

After the movement against Moral and National Education in which Scholarism rose to fame, the pro-democracy students have remained active in the social and democracy movement in Hong Kong.

On 23 June 2013, Scholarism issued a statement which stressed the necessity of civil nomination for the 2017 Chief Executive election.[7] By late August, Scholarism drew up a charter and begun lobbying democratic Legislative Councilors to sign, committing their parties to make civil nomination through universal suffrage the number one priority during the coming campaign for the 2017 Chief Executive election. Among other pro-democratic parties who agreed to sign, the Civic Party signed on with reservations and the Democratic Party, the Labour Party and the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood refused to sign it as they disagree that public nomination should be the only way to put forward candidates.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ 關於我們. 學民思潮 Scholarism (in Chinese).
  2. ^ Wilfred Chan and Yuli Yang, CNN Echoing Tiananmen, 17-year-old Hong Kong student prepares for democracy battle 28 September 2014
  3. ^ 基本資料. 學民思潮 Scholarism (in Chinese).
  4. ^ Wilfred Chan and Yuli Yang, CNN Echoing Tiananmen, 17-year-old Hong Kong student prepares for democracy battle 28 September 2014
  5. ^ "Road closures a flashpoint during tense marches". South China Morning Post. 2 July 2012.
  6. ^ 70多名學民思潮成員政總外紮營請願 (in Chinese). 30 August 2012.
  7. ^ 623政改聲明：全民普選 全民提名 重奪政府. Scholarism Facebook (in Chinese). 24 June 2013.
  8. ^ Lam, Jeffie (20 September 2013). "Public nomination shouldn't be the only way to elect CE: think tank". South China Morning Post.
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