Francis L. F. Lee is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. His previous books include Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era and Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019. He is an Elected Fellow of the International Communication Association and currently chief editor of the Chinese Journal of Communication.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. The Umbrella Movement3. The Mongkok Civil Unrest4. Localism Facing the Voting Public5. Ideological Brokerage and Articulating Hong Kong's Future6. State Repression and Affective Depolarization7. The Anti-ELAB Protests8. ConclusionAppendix: Research MethodologiesNotesReferencesIndex

"Pro-Democracy Contention in Hong Kong is based on exquisite empirical work and anyone interested in Hong Kong's political situation will find much of value." — The China Quarterly"Why did a citywide pro-democracy uprising take place in Hong Kong in 2019? Pro-Democracy Contention in Hong Kong deploys a wealth of research data from field observation, in-depth interview, telephone and on-site surveys, focus group discussion, and social media sources to examine the relational dynamics in the wake of the 2014 Umbrella Movement. Beneath the surface of the low tide, Francis L. F. Lee succeeds in locating the mechanisms of discursive and tactical radicalization that paved the way for the subsequent explosion." — Ming-sho Ho, author of Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement