| 學民思潮 | |
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| Merged into | Demosisto |
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| Formation | 29 May 2011[1] |
| Founder | Joshua Wong |
| Dissolved | 20 March 2016 |
| Type | Student activist group |
| Headquarters | Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island |
| Website | scholarism.com (archived) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 學民思潮 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 学民思潮 | ||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Study Person Thought | ||||||||||||||||
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Scholarism was a Hong Kong pro-democracy[3] student activist group active in the fields of Hong Kong's education policy, political reform and youth policy.[4] It was reported to have 200 members in May 2015.[5]
The group was known for its stance on defending the autonomy of Hong Kong's education policy from Beijing's influence.[6][7][8] It was also the leading organisation during the 2014 Hong Kong protests, better known as the "Umbrella Revolution".
Founded by a number of secondary school students on 29 May 2011, the group first came to media attention when they organised a protest against the Pro-Communist "moral and national education" put forward by the Hong Kong government in 2012. At the height of the event, 120,000 students and members of the public attended the demonstration and forced the government to retract its plans to introduce "moral and national education" as a compulsory subject in schools.[7]
Scholarism ceased functioning in March 2016. Core members including Joshua Wong, Oscar Lai and Agnes Chow formed a new political party Demosisto in April.
- ^ 關於我們. 學民思潮 Scholarism (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
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- ^ "About Scholarism". Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ Zhao, Shirley (24 May 2015). "Hong Kong student Joshua Wong still willing to lead Scholarism despite pressure to finish education". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ "No department of the Central People's Government and no province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government may interfere in the affairs which the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region administers on its own in accordance with this Law." "THE BASIC LAW OF THE HONG KONG (Article 22)". Archived from the original on 13 March 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ a b "(Joshua ) Wong formed a group of students in Hong Kong called Scholarism to stop the territory from implementing a mainland-designed "national education" policy that ignored the Tiananmen massacre and pushed fealty to the Chinese Communist Party."Beech, Hannah (8 October 2014). "The Voice of a Generation". Time. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ^ " After Hong Kong's other activists dialled back their opposition to Beijing's plans for how the city's (region's) mayor (leader), or chief executive, would be elected, the students stepped in to drive the current protests." Moore, Malcolm (11 December 2014). "Portrait of Hong Kong's 18-year-old protest leader". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 27 April 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2015.