6. Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement

Chapters in this book

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