Yeung Sum
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Yeung Sum SBS, JP |
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| 楊森 | |
Yeung Sum in 2015
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| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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In office 1 October 1998 – 30 September 2008 |
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| Succeeded by | Kam Nai-wai |
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In office 1 October 1991 – 30 June 1997 |
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| Chairman of Democratic Party | |
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In office 2 December 2002 – 12 December 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Martin Lee |
| Succeeded by | Wing-tat Lee |
| Personal details | |
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22 November 1947 Guangzhou, Guangdong, Republic of China |
| Political party |
Meeting Point (1983–94) United Democrats (1990–94) Democratic (1994–present) |
| Alma mater |
University of Hong Kong University of York |
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊森 | ||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yáng Sēn |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Yèuhng Sām |
| Jyutping | Joeng4 Sam1 |
Yeung Sum, SBS, JP (Chinese: 楊森; born 22 November 1947 in Guangzhou, Guangdong with family roots in Zengcheng, Guangdong) is a Hong Kong politician and academic. He served several terms as a Legislative Councillor and was the second chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), a pro-democracy political party in Hong Kong. He is a lecturer in at the University of Hong Kong.
Yeung Sum obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Hong Kong. He was a residential member in St. John's College and became the president of its student association from 1972–1973. He gained his master's degree at the University of York in Britain before returning to earn his doctorate from the University of Hong Kong. Yeung Sum has taught at the University of Hong Kong since 1979 and has been a lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration since 1985.
When the issue of Hong Kong sovereignty after 1997 came up in 1983, Yeung and some graduates from the University of Hong Kong founded Meeting Point, the first political organisation supporting Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty. During the drafting of the Hong Kong Basic Law, he pushed for a democratic model for Hong Kong after 1997. He was the second chairman of the group from 1988 to 1989. He also formed the Joint Committee on the Promotion of Democratic Government with liberal-minded drafters Martin Lee and Szeto Wah and became the spokesman of the committee. he was a committee member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China during the Tiananmen protests of 1989 and remained critical of the Chinese government after the bloody crackdown.
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