Willy Wo-Lap Lam

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Willy Wo-Lap Lam in 2015.

Willy Wo-Lap Lam ( Chinese  林和立 , Pinyin Lín Hélì , Yale Làhm Wòh-lahp ; * 1952 ) is a Hong Kong journalist, political scientist and commentator on the politics of the People's Republic of China . He is a member of the Jamestown Foundation and an Associate Professor at the Center for China Studies, Hong Kong University of China .

Lam initially studied at the University of Hong Kong and was already working as an editor at Undergrad (學苑), the magazine of the Hong Kong University Students' Union (香港 大學 學生會). After completing his intermediate diploma, he started working as a journalist for the Chinese edition of the South China Morning Post . He was their correspondent in Beijing until the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. After that, he went to the University of Minnesota , where he did his master's degree in philosophy. He then returned to the People's Republic of China and received his PhD in economics from Wuhan University. Having had a large network of contacts in the People's Republic, he returned to the South China Morning Post after completing his doctorate and was its China editor during the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. In 1995, Lam was described as an "essential Pekingologist" . In 1999, CNN described him as "the most up-to-date observer of China's politics". At that time, he criticized Jiang Zemin for "consolidating his power" in his eyes but "not using this power for anything essential".

After Lam criticized the Politburo of the Communist Party of China invited 30 Hong Kong billionaires to Beijing, including themselves, in a June 2000 comment titled "Harmonizing the Special Administrative Zone Billionaires" or 《《特區 首富 思想》and Robert Kuok had been, wrote the latter, whose family since 1997, the South China Morning post controlled a letter to the editor of the newspaper that Lam's comment (充滿了歪曲事實的推測) was "full of twisted facts and speculation." According to himself, Lam left the paper on November 1, 2000 for this reason. Robert Keatley, the then editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post , wrote in a reply to a letter to the editor on November 7, 2000 that "Willy Wo-Lap Lam's departure had nothing to do with that famous letter from Robert Kuok" (郭 鵪 年 寫的 那 封 著名 的 信 並不是 林 離職 的 原因).

Lam described Xi Jinping's leadership of Chinese society as "the shutdown of the Chinese mind."

Works

  • Willy Wo-Lap Lam: The Era of Zhao Ziyang: Power Struggle in China, 1986-88 . AB Books & Stationery, Hong Kong 1989, ISBN 9627374016 .
  • Willy Wo-Lap Lam: China After Deng Xiaoping . John Wiley and Sons, New York 1995, ISBN 0471131148 .
  • Willy Wo-Lap Lam: The Era of Jiang Zemin . Prentice Hall, Singapore 1999, ISBN 0130837016 .
  • Willy Wo-Lap Lam: Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges . ME Sharpe, Armonk and London 2006, ISBN 0765617730 .
  • Willy Wo-Lap Lam: Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression? . Routledge, Abingdon 2015, ISBN 0765642093 .
  • Willy Wo-Lap Lam: The Fight for China's Future: Civil Society vs. the Chinese Communist Party . Routledge, Abingdon 2019, ISBN 036718866X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Wo-Lap Lam. Jamestown Foundation, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Willy Lam. In: Geostrategy-Direct. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ David Shambaugh: Review of China After Deng Xiaoping . In: The China Quarterly . No. 142 , 1995, pp. 607-609: 608 , JSTOR : 655447 (English).
  4. ^ A b Tom Healy: Rise of the nowhere man: Profiling a risk-allergic Jiang presidency. CNN , 1999, archived from the original on March 16, 2015 ; accessed on March 16, 2015 .
  5. ^ Philip P. Pan: Hong Kong Paper Fires Critical Journalist. In: The Washington Post . May 1, 2002, accessed on August 2, 2019 (English): "Willy Wo-Lap Lam, a columnist known for his insider tales of Communist Party intrigue, complained he was being muzzled and quit in December 2000."
  6. ^ Robert Keatley. In: scmp.com. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 林和立 事件 為 自由 香港 敲響 了 警鐘. In: m.renminbao.com. November 12, 2000, Retrieved December 16, 2019 (Chinese).
  8. ^ Ian Johnson: Q. and A .: Willy Wo-Lap Lam on 'Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping'. In: The New York Times . June 1, 2015, accessed August 2, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lam, Willy Wo-Lap
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hon-Kong journalist, political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1952