Jessie Lau

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22 March 2026 14:48

I wrote a story about Dafen, an artist’s village in southern China that used to produce more than 60% of the world’s new oil paintings. Now, its model of art reproductions is under threat, as demand falls and consumer trends in China shift towards originality. Out in print now @financialtimes.com

Jessie Lau

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22 March 2026 12:29

I never took much notice of bamboo scaffolding growing up in HK. But when the issue of its preservation was catapulted into the public discourse following the Tai Po tragedy, I started looking into the history of this centuries-old craft in relation to my city. Read the story now @financialtimes.com

Human Rights in China

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15 December 2025 14:05

In 2020, Guan Heng embarked on a risky mission to prove the existence of Uyghur concentration camps. Now, his fate hangs in the balance as he awaits his immigration hearing on December 15th. If sent back to China, he would face drastic consequences. Read: open.substack.com/pub/hrichina...

Alison Killing

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15 December 2025 14:04

I still remember seeing his video for the first time, as he drove across Xinjiang filming, making excuses to drive down a one way street past one detention centre, tramping across fields, mounting a hidden camera on his backpack to walk past a series of prisons in the regional capital Urumqi.

Alison Killing

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15 December 2025 14:03

It was extraordinarily risky for him to do that and I still get goosebumps when I watch that part of the film. Dabancheng is in a really remote place and he had no plausible deniability for being there - he was there to surreptitiously film the detention facilities.