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- Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
- Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Acronyms
- Introduction
- 1 Setting Up in Hong Kong and Arrest
- 2 Early Life in France and Move Back to Asia
- 3 The Parallel Case of Tan Malaka
- 4 In Revolutionary Guangzhou
- 5 Mounting the Defense
- 6 Legal Process
- 7 Media Coverage of the Arrest and Trial
- 8 The French Diplomatic Démarche
- 9 The Privy Council Verdict, Release and Afterlife
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Dramatis Personae
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Media Coverage of the Arrest and Trial
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2021
- Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
- Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Acronyms
- Introduction
- 1 Setting Up in Hong Kong and Arrest
- 2 Early Life in France and Move Back to Asia
- 3 The Parallel Case of Tan Malaka
- 4 In Revolutionary Guangzhou
- 5 Mounting the Defense
- 6 Legal Process
- 7 Media Coverage of the Arrest and Trial
- 8 The French Diplomatic Démarche
- 9 The Privy Council Verdict, Release and Afterlife
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Dramatis Personae
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Local and international media coverage of Ho Chi Minh's arrest and trial was significant. From a modern media studies perspective, we see in this chapter two processes at work: one exposure and the other censorship (especially when it came to Chinese media). But in the absence of court transcripts, either discarded or lost during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, local English-language newspaper accounts serve as surrogate accounts of the sometimes terse and esoteric legal arguments presented across nine sessions of Hong Kong's Supreme Court. While such media reports have long been available, they have not hitherto been presented in print in such analytical narrative detail.
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- Ho Chi Minh in Hong KongAnti-Colonial Networks, Extradition and the Rule of Law, pp. 172 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021