This City Wears Democracy | More Than 100 Hong Kong “Social Movement T-Shirts” Exhibited in Taiwan, Tracing the City’s Social Movement History
這城穿過民主｜逾百件香港「社運T」在台展出 「穿閱」香港社運史
Everything worn leaves a trace. Even though Hong Kong is no longer the “city of marches”, social movement T-shirts left from earlier days preserve fragments of Hong Kong’s civil society at the time. The Taiwan Hong Kong Studies Association is publicly exhibiting more than 100 “social movement T-shirts” collected from the community in Taiwan, using Hong Kong’s distinctive social movement T-shirt culture to show how Hong Kong people wore the issues they cared about on their bodies. The Hong Kong-themed exhibition “This City Wears Democracy” is jointly organised by Academia Sinica and the Taiwan Hong Kong Studies Association. Chan Kin-man, chairman of the Taiwan Hong Kong Studies Association and one of the organisers, said the more than 100 Hong Kong “social movement T-shirts” on display were part of a collection gathered from Hong Kong communities.
凡穿過的必留下痕跡，即使香港不再是「遊行之都」，從舊日留下來的「社運T」，也留住了香港公民社會當年的點滴。臺灣香港研究學會把從民間收集到的逾百件「社運T」，在台灣公開展出，以香港獨有的「社運T」文化，展現香港人如何把關心的議題「著上身」。 由台灣中央研究院和臺灣香港研究學會合作舉辦香港專題展：「這城穿過民主」，主辦方之一臺灣香港研究學會理事長陳健民表示，這次展出的逾百件香港「社運T」，是他們從香港社群收集到的部份珍藏。