The umbrella movement : civil resistance and contentious space in Hong Kong / edited by Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ma, Ngok, editor.

Zheng, Wei (College teacher), editor.

Series:

Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 9.

Global Asia ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--China--Hong Kong.

Protest movements.

Political persecution--China--Hong Kong.

Political persecution.

Human rights--China--Hong Kong.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different disciplinary focuses and comparative perspectives from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, one common thread that stitches the chapters is the use of first-hand data collected through on-site fieldwork. This study unearths how trajectories can create favourable conditions for the spontaneous civil resistance despite the absence of political opportunities and surveys the dynamics through which the protestors, the regime and the wider public responses differently to the prolonged contentious space. The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong offers an informed analysis of the political future of Hong Kong and its relations with the authoritarian sovereignty as well as sheds light on the methodological challenges and promises in studying modern-day protests.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong

1. From Political Acquiescence to Civil Disobedience. Hong Kong's Road to Occupation

2. Spontaneity and Civil Resistance. A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement

3. Rude Awakening. New Participants and the Umbrella Movement

4. Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among Umbrella Movement Participants

5. Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity. Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement

6. Creating a Textual Public Space. Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement

7. From Repression to Attrition State Responses towards the Umbrella Movement

8. Protesters and Tactical Escalation

9. Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement

10. Correlates of Public Attitudes toward the Umbrella Movement

11. The Power of Sunflower. The Origin and the Impact of Taiwan's Protest against Free Trade with China

12. The Mirror Image. How does Macao Society read Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement?

13. Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then

Appendix. The Umbrella Movement-Chronology of Major Events

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789048535248

9048535247

OCLC:

1110717476