Claudia Mo

The Honourable
Claudia Mo
毛孟靜

Claudia Mo in 2013
Member of the Legislative Council
Assumed office
1 October 2012
Preceded by Frederick Fung
Constituency Kowloon West
Personal details
Born (1957-01-18) 18 January 1957
Hong Kong
Nationality Hong Kong Chinese
Political party Civic Party (2006–2016)
HK First (2013–present)
Spouse(s) Philip Bowring
Children Two sons
Residence Repulse Bay, Hong Kong Island
Alma mater Carleton University
Occupation Legislative councillor
Journalist
Columnist
Television presenter
Claudia Mo
Traditional Chinese 毛孟靜
Simplified Chinese 毛孟静

Claudia Mo (born Mo Man-ching on 18 January 1957), also known as Claudia Bowring, is a Hong Kong journalist and politician, a member of Pan-democracy camp. She is a member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon West geographical constituency.

Personal life and education

Mo was born in Hong Kong and has family roots in Ningbo, Zhejiang. Mo is married to journalist Philip Bowring, former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, and they have two sons.[1] She is also known as Claudia Bowring.

She attended high school in Toronto, and in 1979 graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada with a Bachelor's degree in journalism with English studies. After graduating she worked at Agence France-Presse (AFP) translating French wires into Chinese. She was later promoted to chief Hong Kong correspondent for AFP, covering in this role the Tiananmen Square massacre, an event which she describes as a "watershed [...] that cemented my journalistic principles and political beliefs".[2]

Mo is a former journalist, having worked at Agence France-Presse, The Standard and TVB.[3] She also hosted a number of RTHK TV and radio programmes, including "Media Watch" and "City Forum".[4][5]

Mo wrote a book called We Want True Democracy published in 2015, and has also authored English language learning books.[6][3]

Television career

Politics

Mo is a founding member of the Civic Party in 2006. She first ran in the Kowloon West geographical constituency in the 2008 Legislative Council election but was unsuccessful.[7]

In the 2012 election, she won one of the constituency's five available seats. She ran with the slogan "Against Mainlandisation" which led to controversy within the party (Civic Party uses the slogan Against Communistisation). After her election, she was considered more pro-localist within the party. She formed the "HK First" with Neo Democrats' Gary Fan to work on the localist agenda.

In the 2016 election, she was re-elected with the slogan of "self-determination". She later quit the Civic Party on 14 November 2016, citing differences with the party on localism, filibuster and other issues. She said she would continue serving the legislature as an "independent democrat" under the label "HK First".[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chan, Yannie (13 March 2014). "Philip Bowring". HK Magazine.
  2. ↑ Chan, Yannie (7 November 2013). "Claudia Mo". HK Magazine.
  3. 1 2 Kwok, Ben (17 June 2015). "Ms. Mo speaks up in English for true democracy". Hong Kong Economic Journal.
  4. ↑ Executive Committee of Civic Party Archived 21 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Ms MO, Claudia Man Ching 毛孟靜". Chinese University. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  6. ↑ Heung, Charis (16 July 2015). "Would you spend HK$50,000 on a set of English learning books?". Hong Kong Economic Journal.
  7. ↑ 2008 Legislative Council Election Archived 22 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ "Hong Kong lawmaker Claudia Mo resigns from Civic Party citing ‘differences’ over localism and other issues". South China Morning Post. 14 November 2016.
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