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 onsite 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. This new edition includes a preface on Hong Kong’s ‘summer of dissent’ in 2019, arguing that the movement’s dynamics and resilience cannot be detached from the learning curve of the protesters and the hidden networks developed after the Umbrella Movement.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong
- Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng
- Introduction
- Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong
- Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng
- Part A - Trajectory and Contingency
- 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
- Part B - Repertories and Strategies
- 4 Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among Umbrella Movement Participants
- Francis Lee and Gary Tang
- 5 Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity
- Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement
- Cheuk-Hang Leung and Sampson Wong
- 6 Creating a Textual Public Space
- Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement
- Part C - Regime and Public Responses
- 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
- Part D - Comparative Perspectives
- 11 The Power of Sunflower
- The Origin and the Impact of Taiwan’s Protest against Free Trade with China
- Ming-sho Ho and Thung-hong Lin
- 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
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