http://hdl.handle.net/10453/52270 2026-05-11T09:37:25Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/194908 Title: Massacre Denied, Memory Punished: Hong Kong’s Totalitarian Court at Work Authors: Wong, KH 2026-04-17T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/194907 Title: Political resistance in Sheep Village: The politics of metaphors and their pedagogical implications Authors: Wong, KH Abstract: This study presents a critical discourse analysis of the Sheep Village children's trilogy and examines its pedagogical potential for the language education of Hong Kong children living in exile. Drawing on metaphor analysis, the study analyses how recurring figures such as the sheep, wolves, shepherd, and village allegorically represent collective agency, totalitarian power, moral leadership, and communal belonging in the context of the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The findings show that the texts construct resistance not through individual heroism but through ethical awareness, shared responsibility, and the preservation of cultural memory, offering young readers a narrative framework for understanding injustice and political power. Building on these findings, the article proposes pedagogical principles adapted from Critical English for Academic Purposes (CEAP) to support the integration of literary texts into language education. It argues that metaphor-rich narratives such as Sheep Village can be used to develop linguistic competence, emotional literacy, and critical civic awareness among children in exile communities, positioning children’s literature as a bridge between language learning, identity formation, and sociopolitical consciousness in host societies. 2026-04-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/194906 Title: Regulating Speech: A Comparative Analysis of Australia’s Racial Vilification Offence and Hong Kong’s National Security Law Authors: Wong, KH Abstract: <jats:p>This article undertakes a comparative critical historiographical analysis of Australia’s proposed 2026 racial vilification offence and Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) to examine how legal regimes regulate speech through differing constructions of harm, threat, and legitimacy. Drawing on Flowerdew’s Critical Discourse Historiography (CDH), the study approaches law as a historically situated discourse that encodes assumptions about state power, social fragility, and political belonging. Through close textual analysis of statutory language and associated discourse, the article examines how the presence or absence of contextual exemptions shapes the legal boundaries of punishable expression, revealing a divergence in the presupposed ontology of power underpinning the two regimes. Although the proposed Australian offence was withdrawn, Australia’s hate speech framework operates within a liberal-democratic tradition that presupposes a strong state governing a pluralistic society, in which exemptions and contextual interpretation function as mechanisms for balancing harm mitigation against expressive freedom. By contrast, Hong Kong’s NSL presupposes a weak and vulnerable state, foregrounding sovereignty and security as overriding values and discursively constructing dissent as an existential threat. The absence of meaningful exemptions within the NSL facilitates a form of performative citizenship, in which loyalty is enforced through the policing of alternative political narratives. By situating both regimes within their historical and ideological trajectories, the article argues that exemptions are not peripheral technicalities but central discursive mechanisms that determine whether speech regulation functions as social governance or regime preservation, offering Hong Kong’s experience as a cautionary lens for debates on speech regulation in liberal democracies.</jats:p> 2026-04-07T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/194826 Title: Mentorship and the Australian poetry laureateship: International models and national understandings Authors: Holland-Batt, S; Falconer, D 2026-04-29T00:00:00Z