Unfree Speech

Resumen del libro

An urgent manifesto for global democracy from the leading 23-year-old Hong Kong activist - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes and Fortune world leader. At what point do you stand up to power?When he was 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education - and won.

Since then, Joshua has led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party called Demosisto, and rallied the international community around the anti-extradition bill protests, which have seen an estimated 2 million people - more than a quarter of the population - take to Hong Kong's streets. His actions have sparked worldwide attention, earned him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and landed him in jail twice. In Unfree Speech, Joshua tells his story for the first time.

Composed in three parts, Joshua chronicles his path to politics, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner under the Chinese state, and closes with a powerful and urgent call for all of us around the world to defend our democratic values. Hong Kong is the canary in the coal mine. When we stay silent, no-one is safe: when we free our speech, they can't stop all of us.

Biografía del autor

Jason Y. Ng nació en Hong Kong pero ha pasado más de veinte años de su vida en Italia, Estados Unidos y Canadá. Estudió Derecho e Ingeniería Eléctrica en la Universidad de Pensilvania y es doctor en leyes y MBA por la Universidad de Toronto. Habla inglés, cantonés y mandarín. En 2005 regresó a Hong Kong con la intención de redescubrir sus raíces. En la actualidad trabaja como abogado, escritor, profesor universitario y articulista para numerosos medios de comunicación. Es autor de la trilogía sobre su ciudad natal de la que forma parte Hong Kong no es ciudad para lentos, y que completan Hong Kong State of Mind (2010) y Umbrellas in Bloom (2016). Dedica también parte de su tiempo a los movimientos prodemocracia de Hong Kong y a favor de la libertad de expresión, y defiende los derechos de las trabajadoras domésticas extranjeras y otros grupos minoritarios.