1. From Political Acquiescence to Civil Disobedience. Hong Kong’s Road to Occupation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction. Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong 11
5. Part A. Trajectory and Contingency
6. 1. From Political Acquiescence to Civil Disobedience. Hong Kong’s Road to Occupation 27
7. 2. Spontaneity and Civil Resistance. A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement 51
8. 3. Rude Awakening. New Participants and the Umbrella Movement 77
9. Part B. Repertories and Strategies
10. 4. Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among Umbrella Movement Participants 101
11. 5. Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity. Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement 125
12. 6. Creating a Textual Public Space. Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement 149
13. Part C. Regime and Public Responses
14. 7. From Repression to Attrition State Responses towards the Umbrella Movement 185
15. 8. Protesters and Tactical Escalation 209
16. 9. Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement 233
17. 10. Correlates of Public Attitudes toward the Umbrella Movement 251
18. Part D. Comparative Perspectives
19. 11. The Power of Sunflower. The Origin and the Impact of Taiwan’s Protest against Free Trade with China 279
20. 12. The Mirror Image. How does Macao Society read Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement? 311
21. 13. Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then 335
22. Appendix. The Umbrella Movement-Chronology of Major Events 347
23. Index 353