A Caucasian activist from the United States has been confirmed to be doing a "yellowface" act, posing as a leading Hong Kong Chinese protest cheerleader, an investigative journalism agency says. Tom Grundy, editor of Hong Kong Free Press, sent legal threats demanding it be removed from The Standard's archives. * * *Separately, a Hong Kong youth journalism team called The Third Degree also investigated the Hong Kong Free Press writer and came to the same conclusion. * * *Incidentally, this newspaper found one piece in which the nonexistent "Kong Tsung-gan" wrote that he had spent his childhood at a Hong Kong government Band One school. More amusingly, several sources confirmed that self-published Hong Kong novelist Xun Yuexang was the same American expat.

Source: The Standard August 09, 2020 19:07 UTC