Traditional medicine is long-revered in Hong Kong, a bastion of Chinese cultural tradition even among residents who resent Chinese Communist Party rule.
Authorities have said the police response has been reasonable, considering the behavior of some protesters. After a police officer shot a protester, Hong Kong Police Chief Stephen Lo said the officer had acted in self-defense to avoid being attacked.
Lee studied traditional Chinese medicine in the mainland city of Guangzhou for five years. He’d grown up largely apolitical but attended a protest during Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, standing on the sidelines thinking the protesters were crazy. At his Hong Kong clinic, Lee instructs a patient on how to use a tonic that counteracts the effects of tear gas exposure.
The network’s funds, about $2,550 as of late October, come from donations, he said, often from older patients who insist on paying for their treatments. They go “dreaming” instead of protesting, pick up “stationery” instead of masks and umbrellas, and ride “school buses,” cars driven by volunteers who pick up protesters as they flee from police.
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