Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong

doi:10.1017/9789048535248

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.

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Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Acknowledgements
pp 7-10

Introduction: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong
pp 11-24

Part A - Trajectory and Contingency
pp 25-26

1 - From Political Acquiescence to Civil Disobedience: Hong Kong's Road to Occupation
pp 27-50

2 - Spontaneity and Civil Resistance: A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement
pp 51-76

3 - Rude Awakening: New Participants and the Umbrella Movement
pp 77-98

Part B - Repertories and Strategies
pp 99-100

4 - Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among Umbrella Movement Participants
pp 101-124

5 - Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity: Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement
pp 125-148

6 - Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement
pp 149-182

Part C - Regime and Public Responses
pp 183-184

7 - From Repression to Attrition: State Responses towards the Umbrella Movement
pp 185-208

8 - Protesters and Tactical Escalation
pp 209-232

9 - Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement
pp 233-250

10 - Correlates of Public Attitudes toward the Umbrella Movement
pp 251-276

Part D - Comparative Perspectives
pp 277-278

11 - The Power of Sunflower: The Origin and the Impact of Taiwan's Protest against Free Trade with China
pp 279-310

12 - The Mirror Image: How does Macao Society read Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement?
pp 311-334

13 - Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then
pp 335-346

Appendix: The Umbrella Movement—Chronology of Major Events
pp 347-352

Index
pp 353-356

Publications/Global Asia
pp 357-357

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