A video of a “grandma” involved in fraudulent use of elderly Octopus cards to save money after she was caught causing a scene at an MTR station and cursing MTR staff as “capitalist dogs” has gone viral on the Hong Kong Internet. It was later revealed that she was Li Wei, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from mainland China, who had been a high-profile supporter of the National Security Law and had also bragged about taking the offerings of other people’s ancestors to cook at Home and caused controversy. The phenomenon behind the latest controversy of this “sacrifice eating” professor has caused the cultural community to discuss.
Cursing capitalist lapdog reports colleague’s violation of national security law
The video, which has been circulating on Facebook, features Li Wei, a 39-year-old Shanghai-born assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in front of the exit gate of the Sham Shui Po MTR station. Li Wei is suspected of using her senior citizen Octopus card to save fares, in violation of the Hong Kong Railway By-laws, and an argument broke out with MTR staff. The video shows her claiming to be a “teacher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong” and scolding MTR staff for “using the wrong card, why are you doing this”, “the poor can’t help it”, and “you don’t know the prices, you are capitalists. You don’t know the price of goods, you are the capitalist’s lackeys!”
Later, when the uniformed police officers arrived to ask her to calm down, she said to the police officers excitedly “I used the wrong Octopus, you abuse arrest!” She also “reported” a scholar from the same department at CUHK, “Why didn’t you arrest my colleague? Why not arrest Ma Yue? Not arresting Li Jiachiao? They violated the National Security Law!”
The Standpoint News reported that the CUHK assistant professor, who earns a monthly salary of more than HK$70,000, did not respond positively to the incident in an interview afterwards, but later added an email criticizing the “$2 fare concession” for the elderly as having no mechanism to benefit “low-income earners” who do not meet the age requirement. The incident was reported by the police. The Hong Kong police confirmed that a 39-year-old woman surnamed Lee violated the Hong Kong Railway By-laws, and the case was referred to the MTR for follow-up.
Stealing roadside offerings: “It’s none of your business if I’m happy”
The police have confirmed that a 39-year-old woman has violated the Hong Kong Railway By-laws. The video of Li’s “cheapness” being caught and then making a scene on the MTR caused many people to look at her. In September 2020, she criticized the public for wasting Food by placing offerings on the streets in the university’s Facebook group, so she took some peanuts, beans, oranges and other food home and asked her maid to make the offerings into “three dishes and one Soup” and show off the photos.
According to CU campus radio, some CU students pointed out that this practice was disrespectful to the deceased, their families and traditional Culture, to which Li Wei responded, “It’s none of your business if I’m happy”. Li also criticized the students’ opposition to the National Security Law as a “waste of youth and shortened Life span”.
The university dyed red Tao Jie: what did the students learn from her?
The incident of Li Wei has not only aroused heated discussions among netizens, but also caused discussions and reflections in Hong Kong’s cultural and academic circles. The famous Writer Tao Jie, who is known as “Hong Kong’s first talent”, wrote an article on Facebook saying that Li Wei “instantly brings out the nature of an amah” and “has the style of Yuan Qiu of Pig Cage City”.
Tao Jie further commented on the academic level that the Chinese University of Hong Kong has long had illusions about “Red China” and has paid high salaries to give up professorships and graduate places to more and more scholars from China. But he lamented that if the Chinese University’s policy of “academic inclusion” and “inclusive interaction to change China” had been successful, the incident of Li Wei would not have occurred. In particular, Li Wei openly criticized the subway staff as “dogs of capitalism,” said Tao Jie. What have they learned from this “good teacher”? They may have been tainted with a sense of hatred for the capitalist system.
Hong Kong writer Gao Huiran wrote an article in Apple Daily with the title “Li Wei Phenomenon”, questioning her for being complacent about stealing food for road sacrifice and putting it on the Internet to show off; after she was caught using the $2 elderly fare concession, she reported herself as a teacher of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The values are “unique”. She divided people into proletarians and capitalists, with a strong taste of class struggle, “but Hong Kong is originally a capitalist society, she left communist China to study and work in Hong Kong, what is the purpose? To assimilate Hong Kong and turn it into a communist special zone? How many people like Li Wei are there in Hong Kong?”
Why did the “patriot” take the sheep by the hand?
Columnist and literary and historical scholar Xu Quan also wrote an article on CCTV to discuss the incident, arguing that behind Li Wei’s series of controversial words and actions is actually the result of the revolutionary culture of China’s Cultural Revolution era – “political stance above all”. “In the long history of the communist revolution, instances of doing whatever it takes to achieve revolutionary goals abounded. When the revolutionary culture was implemented in ordinary people, morality became alienated and metamorphosed.”
Xu Quan pointed out that during the Cultural Revolution, Lin Biao once said that a proletarian revolutionary should look at the big things rather than the small things, and that relationships between men and women or stealing chickens and dogs were small things; loyalty to the Party and to the leader Mao Zedong Thought was the big thing. In the life of ordinary people, when politics overrides human morality, there will be a human tragedy of sons criticizing fathers and couples drawing a clear line. Xu Quan says that although the Cultural Revolution is over, this legacy has not been dispelled. Li Wei obviously understands this, play the “revolutionary spirit”, the Hong Kong District State Security Law, she fought the group of scholars, without the slightest fear. She took away the tributes of other people’s ancestors and fraudulently used the senior citizen card, which are all minor disputes.
“In today’s Hong Kong, any other mistakes can be forgiven, such as police abuse of power, government inaction or official corruption; the only thing that cannot be forgiven is resistance to the national security law of Hong Kong, and resistance to the Hong Kong government’s promotion of stopping violence and controlling chaos.” Li Wei’s denunciation of capitalist Hong Kong’s wage earners “gave the majority of Hong Kong people a vivid, ironic and highly relevant lesson in Chinese Marxist politics, and more profoundly continued the patriotic spirit of Canadian sports car patriots to be big and sacrifice small, and their revolutionary qualities are so hard that they cannot be understood or imagined by ordinary Hong Kong people.”
The scourge of atheistic ideology does not respect God and Buddha ancestors
At the same Time, the Chinese tradition usually worships heaven, earth, ruler, relatives and teachers, and it is essential to pay tribute to ancestors with incense and fruits. But Li Wei, who inherited the Communist Party’s atheistic ideology, decisively drew a line in the sand with heaven, earth, and kings, relatives and teachers or ancestors, and was not in any way bound by religion or traditional folk customs. She took away the tributes that others paid to their ancestors and used them as food for her own table. “In the face of a wave of skepticism, she claimed to be ‘responding to the state’s call not to waste food.’ It is evident that in her mind, sacrifice and faith, is a spiritual waste; to participate in sacrifice with food, is a material waste. In Li Wei’s mind, there is no reverence for the ancestors, the dead, faith, gods and Buddhas, and what is bigger than the sky is “national policy”. The “national policy” was used to justify her own actions of taking the sheep by the hand.
The article concludes by saying that politics and patriotism as a cover are the cancer of today’s Chinese society, and that “in the name of patriotism, all evils are feasible,” becoming an excuse and a tool for destroying morality.
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