The dynamics of social movement in Hong Kong

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This book fills this gap admirably. Far from imposing Western analytic categories over a different setting, the authors develop a fruitful dialogue between different theoretical currents.

This book will appeal The dynamics of social movement in Hong Kong book both social movement analysts who do not specialize in Latin America and area experts from other intellectual perspectives. xii The Dynamics of Social Movement in Hong Kong David A.

LEVIN is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. He is co-editor of Labour Movement in a Changing Society: The Experience of Hong Kong. Tai Lok LUI is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Size: KB.

This book examines the role of the media—understood as an integrated system composed of both conventional media institutions and digital media platforms—in the formation and dynamics of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong in It grounds the analysis into the broad background of the rise of protest politics in Hong Kong since the early Author: Francis L.F.

Lee. Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven aims to make sense of the origins, processes, and outcomes of these eventful protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Ming-sho Ho compares the dynamics of the two movements, from the existing networks of activists that preceded protest, to the perceived threats that ignited the movements, to the government Cited by: 1.

Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world. They strengthen the mobilization power of movements, extend movement networks, facilitate new modes of protest participation, and give rise to new protest formations.

Meanwhile, conventional media remains an important arena where protesters and their targets contest for public support. Book Description. SinceHong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement.

What drove tens of thousands of citizens to the street on a yearly basis to protest. What were the social and organizational bases of the protest movement. This comprehensive book will be of interest to scholars researching on Hong Kong and Taiwan politics as well as on social movements in general." — China Information "The Sunflower Movement and the Umbrella Movement (both ), in Taiwan and Hong Kong respectively, were significant in many ways, yet there has been no serious scholarship on.

Hong Kong (/ ˌ h ɒ ŋ ˈ k ɒ ŋ / (); Chinese: 香港, Cantonese: [hœ́ːŋ.kɔ̌ːŋ] ()), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of China in the eastern Pearl River Delta by the South China over million people of various nationalities in a 1,square.

Studies of Hong Kong society have long focused one-sidedly upon economic proserity and political stability.

Contributors to this volume redress this imbalance by taking a critical view of Hong Kong’s political development from the perspectives of social conflicts and collective actions. In the second edition of Contentious Politics, Charles Tilly and Sidney Tarrow explore various forms of political contention through a number of case studies including those on the Occupy movement, revolutions in the Middle East and the campaign for free and fair elections in Hong Long praises this volume for the utility of its conceptual framework, which underscores the crucial.

British journalist and novelist John Lanchester spent much of his younger life in Hong Kong. His epic novel Fragrant Harbour, which spans much of the 20th century, begins in It tells the story of Tom Stewart, a young, adventure-hungry Englishman who journeys on the SS Darjeeling to Hong Kong, where he discovers a world of corruption and glamour.

Socialism in Hong Kong is a political trend taking root from Marxism and Leninism which was imported to Hong Kong and mainland China in the late s and early s. Socialist trends have taken various forms, including Marxism–Leninism, Maoism, Trotskyism, democratic socialism and liberal socialism, with the Marxism–Leninists being the most dominant faction due to the influence of the.

Hong Kong’s labor movement has historically been weak, and the post government continued the anti-worker policies inherited from the British. Although Hong Kong does have freedom of association, there are no collective bargaining rights and a woefully inadequate minimum wage was only instituted in the last few years.

The Dynamics of Social Movement in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Culture and Society): ISBN () Softcover, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City (Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities).

The Occupy movement in Hong Kong was sustained for about 80 days because of government tolerance, the presence of determined participants, and a weak leadership. The government tolerated the occupation because its initial use of force, in particular teargas, was counterproductive and provoked large-scale participation.

The Umbrella Movement put Hong Kong on the world map and elevated this docile, money-minded Asian island to a model for pro-democracy campaigns across the globe.

Umbrellas in Bloom is the first book available in English to chronicle this history-making event, written by a bestselling author and columnist based on his firsthand experience at the /5(13). The contributors to East Asian Social Movements argue that such a paradigm is inherently Eurocentric and insensitive to the diversity of local traditions and cultures.

This book thus presents a collective attempt to seriously integrate culture. Hong Kong's Richest; Beyond Economy, China's Social Dynamics Are Changing in dividing people that once lived on a land that was relatively free of skyscrapers and this is.

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Currently he is a visiting scholar to Harvard Yenching Institute (). He studies social movements, labor and the environmental issues. His works include Working Class Formation in Taiwan () and Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement (forthcoming).Transnational Feminism and Women’s Movements in Post Hong Kong: Solidarity Beyond the State is the first comprehensive account of feminism and women’s movements in Hong Kong.

The unique geographical, historical and cultural situation of the city provides the backdrop for Adelyn Lim to bring diverse groups of activists organizing. The book is highly pertinent to readers interested in political development in Hong Kong, and as a case study on "the power of critical events," the book also has broad implications on the study of both media politics and social movements in general.