HONG KONG -- All through the sweltering summer recess, Michael, 23, and Stella, 19, have gone together to protest on the streets of Hong Kong. Occupying the city's main thoroughfares, setting up barricades and choking on poisonous tear gas have become their "default dating activities on weekends," Michael said.
Using the same strategies that have propelled the fluid, self-organizing protesters on the streets, a group of Hong Kong's citizens has taken on the media machine of the Beijing-backed government. (© Illustration by Yuko Kai and Nakako Shiotsuki)
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