Hong Kong : : global China's restive frontier / / Ching Kwan Lee.

How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China-Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Bei...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Cambridge elements. Elements in global China.
Physical Description:1 online resource (84 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Jul 2022).
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Hong Kong: Global China's Restive Frontier
  • Contents
  • 1 Hong Kong as Puzzle
  • 1.1 Conceptual Tool Kits: Hong Kong Studies and Global ChinaStudies
  • 1.1.1 Hong Kong Studies
  • 1.1.2 Global China Studies
  • 1.2 Arguments
  • 2 Global China's Playbook in Hong Kong
  • 2.1 Why China's Paradigm Shift?
  • 2.1.1 Hong Kong's Governance Crisis by Design
  • 2.1.2 The Specter of Global Rebellions
  • 2.1.3 Exporting Surplus Capacity and Exalting Nationalism
  • 2.2 Global Playbook, Local Application
  • 2.2.1 Patron-Clientelism
  • 2.2.2 Economic Statecraft
  • 2.2.3 Symbolic Domination
  • 2.3 Conclusion: Fractures and Discontents
  • 3 Countermovement: Decolonization from Below
  • 3.1 Return of the Repressed
  • 3.2 Events and Political Generations
  • 3.3 First Ruptures
  • 3.4 Localism Unbound: Politics of Belonging (2003-19)
  • 3.4.1 Claims: Varieties of Localism
  • 3.4.2 Action: Peaceful, Direct, Fun, Artistic, and Militant
  • 3.5 Regime's Turn to Institutional Violence
  • 3.6 "Endgame": What Was Different in 2019?
  • 3.6.1 Police Violence
  • 3.6.2 Reflexivity and Solidarity
  • 3.6.3 Tactical Creativity
  • 3.6.4 Riding the Global Backlash against Global China
  • 3.7 Conclusion
  • 4 Backlash: Lessons from Hong Kong and Beyond
  • 4.1 A Spectrum of Counter-Movements
  • 4.1.1 Appropriating Economic Statecraft
  • 4.1.2 Usurping Patron-Clientelism
  • 4.1.3 Countering Symbolic Domination
  • 4.2 Coda: What Next for Hong Kong and Global China?
  • References.