Hong Kong university sacks Tiananmen scholar after visa denied
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Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 28, 2023
A Hong Kong university has fired a professor who researches China's bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown after the city denied her a visa extension. Rowena He was an associate professor of history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and authored a 2014 book on Tiananmen exiles, according to the website of the school's history department. Hong Kong used to be the only place on Chines