Francis L.F. Lee (PhD, Stanford University, 2003) is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works mainly in the areas of journalism studies, political communication, and media and social movements. His recent book publications include Pro-democracy Contention in Hong Kong: Relational Dynamics between the Umbrella Movement and the Anti-Extradition Protests (SUNY, 2025), Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021), and Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: Hong Kong�s Umbrella Movement (Oxford University Press, 2018). He is an Elected Fellow of the International Communication Association and currently chief editor of the Chinese Journal of Communication.