Claudia Mo

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Claudia Mo

Claudia Mo ( Chinese  毛孟靜  /  毛孟静 ; * as Mo Man-ching on January 18, 1957 ), also known as Claudia Bowring , is a Hong Kong journalist and politician of the democratic camp .

Personal life and education

Mo was born in Hong Kong to a family from Ningbo (Zhejiang). She is married to the British journalist Philip Bowring, with whom she has two sons.

She attended St. Paul's Secondary School in Hong Kong and graduated in 1975. She then completed her pre-university degree in Toronto and in 1979 earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Carleton University in Ottawa.

She then worked at Agence France-Presse (AFP), where she translated despatches from French into Chinese. She was later promoted to AFP chief correspondent in Hong Kong, covering the Tian'anmen massacre , which she described as "a turning point that has cemented [her] journalistic principles and political beliefs." She then worked as a journalist for The Standard and TVB . She also moderated TV and radio programs from RTHK , including Media Watch and City Forum .

Her book We Want True Democracy was published in 2015.

Political career

In 2006 Mo was a founding member of the Civic Party . She first ran unsuccessfully in the 2008 general election in the geographic constituency of Kowloon West .

In the 2012 general election , she won one of the five seats in the Kowloon West constituency. She ran with the slogan " Against Mainlandization " ("Against the continentalization "), which sparked a controversy within the Civic Party, because the party used the slogan " Against Communistization " ("Against Communistization"). After the election she was seen as more localist within her party. With Garry Fan ( Neo-Democrats ) she founded the localist group HK First .

She was re-elected in the 2016 general election . On November 14, 2016, she left the Civic Party due to disagreements over localism, filibusters, and other issues. She claimed that she would continue to sit as a Democratic MP within the HK First group.

In 2019 the pro-Beijing deputy was Junius Ho because of sexist utterances against Claudia Mo from a meeting of the Legislative Council excluded.

Web links

Commons : Claudia Mo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 'She eats foreign sausage': Junius Ho kicked out of LegCo meeting over sexist insult. In: Coconuts.co. October 15, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Yannie Chan: Claudia Mo. In: HK Magazine. November 7, 2013, accessed November 7, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b Ben Kwok: Ms. Mo speaks up in English for true democracy. In: Hong Kong Economic Journal. June 17, 2015, accessed June 17, 2015 .
  4. ^ Executive Committee of Civic Party. Archived from the original on December 21, 2007 ; accessed on December 21, 2007 (English).
  5. ^ Ms MO, Claudia Man Ching 毛孟靜. Chinese University, archived from the original on February 20, 2012 ; accessed on April 2, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Charis Heung: Would you spend HK $ 50,000 on a set of English learning books? In: Hong Kong Economic Journal. July 16, 2015, accessed on July 16, 2015 .
  7. ↑ 2008 Legislative Council Election. Archived from the original on February 22, 2012 ; accessed on February 22, 2012 (English).
  8. ↑ Hong Kong lawmaker Claudia Mo resigns from Civic Party citing 'differences' over localism and other issues. In: South China Morning Post. November 14, 2016, accessed November 14, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Legco panel kicks out Junius Ho over crude remark. RTHK, October 15, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mo, Claudia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowring, Claudia; Mo Man-ching (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hon-Kong journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hong Kong