Umbrella Movement

Ngok Ma is Associate Professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Edmund W. Cheng is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng Part A Trajectory and Contingency 1 From Political Acquiescence to Civil Disobedience: Hong Kong's Road to Occupation Ngok Ma 2 Spontaneity and Civil Resistance: A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement Edmund W. Cheng 3 Rude Awakening: New Participants and the Umbrella Movement Ngok Ma Part B Repertories and Strategies 4 Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among Umbrella Movement Participants Francis Lee and Gary Tang 5 Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity: Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement Cheuk-Hang Leung and Sampson Wong 6 Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement Sebastian Veg Part C Regime and Public Responses 7 From Repression to Attrition: State Responses towards the Umbrella Movement Samson Yuen 8 Protesters and Tactical Escalation Yongshun Cai 9 Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement Ming Sing 10 Correlates of Public Attitudes toward the Umbrella Movement Stan Hok-Wui Wong Part D Comparative Perspectives 11 The Power of Sunflower: The Origin and the Impact of Taiwan's Protest against Free Trade with China Ming-sho Ho and Thung-hong Lin 12 The Mirror Image: How does Macao Society read Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement? Eilo Yu Wing-yat 13 Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then Jeffrey Wasserstrom Appendix: The Umbrella Movement-Chronology of Major Events Index

"This edited volume lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the trajectory of protest movements in Hong Kong and its subsequent twists and turns in 2019. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Hong Kong’s political development and democracy movements as well as civil disobedience and contentious politics in general."- Eva P. W. Hung, China Information, 34 (3) "This concise and informative volume demonstrates that the roots of the 2019 escalation were already emerging in 2014“but it also shows how much Hong Kong has changed since then ... The authors deserve credit for pursuing their research despite the growing pressure on universities in Hong Kong to stamp out work that is critical of the Chinese Communist Party."- Ben Bland, Pacific Affairs, Vol 93. No. 4 (2020) "Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng’s new edited volume, The Umbrella Movement, is a timely contribution for both disciplinary scholars of social protests and regional scholars of Hong Kong and China ... This book is an essential read for anyone interested in both social protest and East Asia, and is especially valuable for those studying Hong Kong and who want to understand the historical context behind the 2019 protests. No prior knowledge of the Umbrella Movement is needed to delve into this volume, but the reader will finish the book with enough knowledge to speak fluently about the protests across disciplines."- Lev Nachman, Asian Journal of Social Science 48 (2020) "While there have been quite a few books on the Umbrella Movement of 2014, this edited volume provides a wealth of additional empirical knowledge and is thus an essential read both for experts and for the general reader who is interested in Hong Kong’s political development and the democracy movement ... This volume is highly recommended ... It should not be omitted from the syllabi of courses on Hong Kong’s social and political development as well as contentious politics in general."- Stephan Ortmann, The China Quarterly 2020 "Approaching the character and causes of the protests from various analytic perspectives and diverse methods, the authors shed new and provocative light on the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong’s most important instance of popular civil resistance after 1997. This book will fascinate and inform anyone interested in popular social movements, not to mention the painful dilemmas of contemporary Hong Kong."- Larry Diamond, Stanford University "This exceptionally vivid, theoretically sophisticated volume provides a deep dive into the historical precedents, causes, evolution and ultimate demise of the 79-day Umbrella Movement that paralyzed Hong Kong in 2014. The contributors adopt a stunning variety of methods, data, on-the-spot observations, and disciplinary approaches to address important issues of contentious politics, social movements and hybrid regimes."- Thomas B. Gold, University of California, Berkeley