Keith B. Richburg, Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong, spent more than 20 years overseas for The Washington Post. Now a Professor of Practice in Hong Kong, he teaches courses on Feature Writing, Covering China and Covering Global Affairs, while continuing his career as a freelance writer and an author.
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Recent Articles
Monthly newsletter: July 2020
By keith
/ July 17, 2020
To say this unusual year has brought unprecedented challenges would be an understatement. I’d like to take this opportunity to...
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Ground-up versus top-down: how the US and China effect social change
By Keith Richburg
/ July 7, 2020
THE STRATEGIST - China’s Communist Party leaders have long understood the potency of symbols and the power to write history....
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The Hong Kong we know is dead
By Keith Richburg
/ July 3, 2020
THE STRATEGIST - Hong Kong’s first handover to China, in 1997, came with fireworks, lion dances and a mood of...
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Policing and racism in the US: Will this time be different?
By Keith Richburg
/ June 9, 2020
THE STRATEGIST - One of my most vivid childhood memories was watching my city burn. In July 1967, when I...
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The Slow Death of Hong Kong
By Keith Richburg
/ May 29, 2020
ASIALINK - Hong Kong has long been Asia’s great entrepot, home to hundreds of thousands of foreigners, including more than...
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Hong Kong’s autonomy, dying in full view
By Keith Richburg
/ April 28, 2020
THE STRATEGIST - It may have gone unnoticed as the world continued to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that the...
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Covid-19 will permanently alter China’s relations with the world
By Keith Richburg
/ April 24, 2020
THE STRATEGIST - As the novel coronavirus has spread from its original epicentre of Wuhan into a global pandemic, China’s...
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Monthly newsletter: April 2020
By Keith Richburg
/ April 16, 2020
Greetings, and I hope you are all staying healthy and safe. Much has changed since my last message to you,...
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Monthly newsletter: February 2020
By Keith Richburg
/ February 18, 2020
Greetings. and apologies for the delay in getting you this newsletter. We normally come back from the semester break with...
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Bird flu, Sars, China coronavirus. Is history repeating itself?
By Keith Richburg
/ January 27, 2020
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST - The government did not warn the public for months, allowing people carrying the virus to...
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