The Umbrella Movement : : Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong, Revised Edition / / ed. by Ngok Ma, Edmund W. Cheng.
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 c...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Global Asia ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 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