1st Edition

The Economic Roots of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong Globalization and the Rise of China

By Louis Augustin-Jean, Anthea Cheung Copyright 2018
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

In the autumn of 2014, thousands of people, young and educated in their majority, occupied the chief business district and seat of the government in Hong Kong. The protest, known as the Umbrella Movement, called for ‘genuine democracy’, as well as a fairer social and economic system. The book aims to provide a dynamic framework to explain why socioeconomic forces converged to produce such a... Read more

1. The Institutional Context: The Main Principles of "One Country, Two Systems" and the National People’s Congress Standing Committee Decision

2. The Bumpy Road of Hong Kong Economy between China and Globalization, and the Disenchantment of the Youth

3. China and Globalization Forces in the Rise of Inequality and the Prospects for Educated Youth

4. Closing the Loop: Oligopolistic Hong Kong – the Local Economy in the Shadow of the Competition Ordinance and Taxation Policies

Conclusion

Biography

Louis Augustin-Jean is Research Fellow in the Centre for Economic Research, the University of Paris-North (CEPN).

Anthea H.Y. Cheung is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.