Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong - Localism After the Umbrella Movement

This book provides an accessible entry point into the political and social cleavages that underpinned, and were expressed through, the Umbrella Movement.

List of contents

Notes on contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Decolonisation deferred: Hong Kong identity in historical perspective (Wing Sang Law)
Chapter 2 Changing identity politics: The democracy movement in Hong Kong (Ma Ngok)
Chapter 3 Mainland Chinese immigration in Hong Kong (香港新移民): Analysing anti-immigrant sentiment (James F. Downes)
Chapter 4 Hong Kong’s fragmented soul: Exploring brands of localism (Wai-man Lam)
Chapter 5 ‘You have to fight on your own’ Self-alienation and the new Hong Kong nationalism (Luke Cooper)
Chapter 6 The development of Hong Kong identity: From local to national identity (Stephan Ortmann)
Chapter 7 Visual and discourse resistance on the "China Factor": The cultural formation of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong (Wai-Kwok Benson Wong)
Chapter 8 From past to future: Hong Kong’s democratic movement (Benny Y. T. TAI)

About the author

Wai-man Lam is Assistant Professor in School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong.
Luke Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Summary

This book provides an accessible entry point into the political and social cleavages that underpinned, and were expressed through, the Umbrella Movement.

Additional text

'This lucidly written book offers a timely analysis of the various shapes of Hong Kong’s thriving localism. It is both empirically rich and theoretically sound. In general, it reveals to keen readers a complex systems theory of changing interconnections, including; generational replacement, new socio-political movements, delicately changing situational identity informed by established as well as emerging social, economic and political divides. It is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand the haphazard development of Hong Kong in a process of accelerating absorption into Mainland China.' - KUAN, Hsin Chi, Emeritus Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Product details

• Authors: Wai-Man (The Open University of Hong Kong Lam, Wai-Man Cooper Lam
• Assisted by: Luke Cooper (Editor), Luke (Anglia Ruskin University) Cooper (Editor), Cooper Luke (Editor), Wai-Man Lam (Editor), Wai-Man (The Open University of Hong Kong Lam (Editor), Lam Wai-man (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367272937
• ISBN: 978-0-367-27293-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Hong Kong, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship