纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英A History Museum Shows How China Wants to Remake Hong Kong
August 23, 2024 2 min 390 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：香港历史博物馆的一项展览展示了中国对香港未来的计划，特别是关于“一国两制”的实践。报道提到，展览中强调了香港自古以来就是中国领土的一部分，以及英国殖民统治下的香港经历。报道批评展览是中国政府试图“重塑香港历史”的努力之一，旨在强调香港与内地的联系，淡化香港独特的文化与历史。 评论： 《纽约时报》的这篇报道有其偏见之处。报道虽提到中国政府的立场，但用词倾向负面，如“重塑历史”等，暗示中国政府试图掩盖真相。然而，展览内容也有其合理性，即客观陈述香港作为中国一部分的历史事实，这与《纽约时报》所倡导的“公正报道”原则不矛盾。此外，报道过分强调香港独特身份，忽略了香港与内地的深厚联系，这本身也是有失客观的。该报道的立场和用词选择，折射出西方媒体对中国存在固有的刻板印象与偏见，有待提高其客观公正的报道水平。
The Hong Kong Museum of History was the place to go to understand the city’s transformation from fishing village to a glittering metropolis. It housed a life-size replica of a traditional fishing boat and a recreation of a 19th-century street lined with shops.
That exhibit, known as “The Hong Kong Story,” is being revamped. People have instead been lining up for a splashy new permanent gallery in the museum that tells a different, more ominous story about the city — that Hong Kong is constantly at risk of being subverted by hostile foreign forces. The exhibit features displays about spies being everywhere and footage of antigovernment street protests in the city that were described as instigated by the West.
As he kicked off the exhibition this month, John Lee, the Beijing-backed leader of Hong Kong, made clear that its overarching purpose was to be a warning to the city. “Safeguarding national security is always a continuous effort. There is no completion,” he said. The gallery, which is managed by Hong Kong’s top national security body, opened to the public on Aug. 7.
The exhibit points to a new aspect of the Hong Kong government’s crackdown on the city after antigovernment protests in 2019 posed the greatest challenge to Beijing’s rule in decades. The authorities have introduced security laws to quash dissent in the years since. They are now pushing to control how people will remember the recent political turmoil.
In the government’s telling, the protests were not organic expressions of the residents’ democratic aspirations, as the city’s opposition activists have said, but part of an ongoing plot by Western forces to destabilize China.
The national security exhibit opens with a short video highlighting the unfair treaties of the 19th century that forced China to cede Hong Kong to the British, as well as the Japanese occupation of the city during World War II. Describing the protests in 2019, the video highlighted footage of protesters hurling Molotov cocktails. “Law and order vanished,” the narrator said. Then it credited new national security laws imposed by Beijing in the crackdown that followed, for turning the tide “from chaos to order.”