Hong Kong protesters built a "fully functioning city" inside a besieged university

Volunteer chefs whipped up hamburgers and french fries in the campus diner, and improvised pizza from bread, cheese and tomato sauce they found in the school’s canteen, to feed the hundreds of protesters who descended on the campus.

Students turned the drained swimming pool into a practice range for Molotov-throwing practice and a gymnasium into de facto barracks. “There were mattresses, foam mats that they’d commandeered from the gym laid out, with blankets, pillows, clothing, gear,” Bing says.

Teams of protesters began stockpiling petrol bombs, in anticipation of a confrontation with police.

“There are Molotovs in the bathrooms, in the gymnasium, in the locker rooms.”