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Hong Kong's 2019-2020 Social Unrest.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Yeung, Bernard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2020.
Subjects:
Hong Kong Protests, Hong Kong, China, 2019-
Protest movements > China > Hong Kong.
Hong Kong (China) > Relations > China.
Hong Kong (China) > Politics and government > 1997-
International relations.
Politics and government.
Protest movements.
China.
China > Hong Kong.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • A Mammoth Task Challenged by Accountability-Light Opposition Politics
  • Important Lessons from Hong Kong
  • History I: Early Riots and Recovery
  • History II: Opposition Politics, Hong Kong Style
  • Displaying Dissatisfaction
  • Accountability-Light Politics
  • One Solution
  • Democracy and Freedom
  • Organisation of This Book
  • Chapter 2 The Beginning: History before 1982
  • China's Humiliation and Hong Kongers' Chinese Identity
  • British Hong Kong in Earlier Days: The 1956 and 1967 Riots.
  • Chinese Identity, the Government's Reconciliation, and a Compromise
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3 1982 to the 1997 Handover: Distrust and Seeds for Trouble
  • The Formation of the Basic Law: A Storm in the Middle
  • The Key Elements of the Basic Law
  • Chris Patten's "Political Reforms": The Formation of a Future Opposition Coalition
  • Other Changes that Created Forthcoming Challenges for Post-1997 Hong Kong
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4 Post-1997: An Era of Inconsistent Policies
  • A Glorious Record but Inconsistent Policies
  • Immigrants from China and Population Growth.
  • The Government CSSA, Economic Immigrants and Social Sentiment
  • Medical Services
  • Housing Shortage and Cost
  • Changes in China
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5 A Series of Protests Leading to the 2019-2020 Social Unrest
  • The Drivers
  • The significant rallies before 2019 are as follows:
  • 2019 Protest Movement
  • Protest against an amendment to the existing extradition bill
  • Expanded objectives
  • Escalating violence, rumours, negative emotions, and more violence
  • Biased mass and social media, police brutality
  • Taking Stock
  • Chapter 6 The Narrative: Is China Repressive?
  • Did China Repress Hong Kong?
  • Denied Hong Kong universal suffrage
  • Hong Kong is losing its freedoms
  • What is the Source of the Allegation?
  • Did China Add to the Sentiment that It is Repressive?
  • China Trapped in an Unfavourable Narrative
  • Chapter 7 Accountability-Light and Narrative Politics
  • Accountability-Light Opposition Politics
  • The Basic Law gives Hong Kong democracy
  • Needs a sound accountability system
  • An eco-system of accountability
  • Does Hong Kong have an accountability system?
  • Accountability-light opposition and unrest
  • Blame Narrative Politics.
  • The context and an illustration of building a blame narrative
  • Humans use narrative
  • Narratives, thinking process, and crowd acceptance
  • Blame narratives and conspiracy theory in Hong Kong
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8 The Youth: Their Identity and Education, the Government's Failure
  • The Revealing Nature of LIHKG Posts
  • The Root Causes of Such Highly Negative Emotions and Destructive Energy
  • An illustrative post
  • Misleading teaching, mass media, political propaganda, and socialisation
  • Incomplete information and lack of closure
  • Ugly politics poisons young minds.

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