1st Edition
The Umbrella Movement Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong
Edited By Ngok Ma
Copyright 2019
356 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong, 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, 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, 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, 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
Biography
Ngok Ma is Associate Professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Edmund W. Cheng is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.
