The Umbrella Movement

Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong, Revised Edition
0. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6372-334-3
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Asia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ma, Ngok

Cheng, Edmund W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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

Ngok Ma

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

Edmund W. Cheng

3 Rude Awakening: New Participants and the Umbrella Movement

Ngok Ma

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

Sebastian Veg

Part C Regime and Public Responses

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

Samson Yuen

8 Protesters and Tactical Escalation

Yongshun Cai

9 Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement

Ming Sing

10 Correlates of Public Attitudes toward the Umbrella Movement

Stan Hok-Wui Wong

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?

Eilo Yu Wing-yat

13 Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Appendix: The Umbrella Movement-Chronology of Major Events

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cheng, Edmund W.
Edmund W. Cheng is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.

Ma, Ngok
Ngok Ma is Associate Professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong.