The story follows Captain Tom Lingard, the recurring protagonist of The Lingard Trilogy, who was on his way to help a native friend regain his land when he falls in love with a married woman whose yacht he saves from foundering.
- 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