25 years of China’s slow takeover of Hong Kong in pictures

In 2011, the government proposed introducing a new “moral and national education” course for the school curriculum. Joshua Wong, who went on to become a prominent activist, founded the student activist group Scholarism at age 14. Over the next year, tens of thousands, including parents, joined its demonstrations against the course, and protesters occupied the government headquarters. Some went on hunger strikes. Taken aback by the magnitude of the response, officials shelved the proposal in September.