City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule Ho-fung Hung. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 316 pp. £20.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781108840330
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In: The China quarterly, Band 253, S. 268-270
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: The China quarterly, Band 245, S. 303-304
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In: The China quarterly, Band 246, S. 374-399
ISSN: 1468-2648
This paper surveys the process of discursive contestation by intellectual agents in Hong Kong that fostered a counter-public sphere in China's offshore. In the post-war era, Chinese exiled intellectuals leveraged the colony's geopolitical ambiguity and created a displaced community of loyalists/dissenters that supported independent publishing venues and engaged in the cultural front. By the 1970s, homegrown and left-wing intellectuals had constructed a hybrid identity to articulate their physical proximity to, yet social distance from, the Chinese nation-state, as well as to appropriate their sense of belonging to the city-state, through confronting social injustice. In examining periodicals and interviewing public intellectuals, I propose that this counter-public sphere was defined first by its alternative voice, which contested various official discourses, second by its multifaceted inclusiveness, which accommodated diverse worldviews and subjectivities, and third by its critical platform, which nurtured social activism in undemocratic Chinese societies. I differentiate the permissive conditions that loosened constraints on intellectual agencies from the productive conditions that account for their penetration and diffusion. Habermas's idealized public sphere framework is revisited by bringing in ideational contestation, social configuration and cultural identity. (China Q/GIGA)
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In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 83, S. 1-33
ISSN: 1835-8535
This article examines the Hong Kong regime's mechanisms of countermobilization as a reaction to and preemptive strike against dissent. It reveals how united front work historically rooted in Chinese Communist Party apparatuses has penetrated into Hong Kong. The PRC's Liaison Office in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong government have established a hierarchical yet dispersed platform to combine repression with outsourced contention. Hong Kong's regime demonstrates its resilience in how it and the Liaison Office's united front apparatus recruit nonstate actors to constrain opposition from below through both carrots and sticks. More broadly, the article unpacks how the regime's mechanisms of patronage, counterprotest, attrition, and stigmatization operate. While these regime repertoires have curtailed organized resistance during some periods, they have also eroded the regime's legitimacy, exposing it to the re-eruption of protests. The article concludes by assessing how the pro-government united front alliance was utilized during the unprecedented summer of dissent in 2019 over a proposed extradition law. (China J/GIGA)
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In: The China quarterly, Band 238, S. 553-555
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In: The China quarterly, Band 226, S. 383-406
ISSN: 1468-2648
AbstractThis paper examines the diffusion of activism in post-colonial Hong Kong through the lens of the political regime and eventful analysis. It first reveals the institutional foundations of the hybrid regime that allowed the creation of a nascent movement society. It then explains how the historic 1 July rally in 2003 and a series of critical events since 2006 have led to a shift in scale and the public staging of street politics. A time-series analysis and onsite survey further capture the dynamics that spawned the collective recognition of grievances and reduced participation costs, leading to the Umbrella Movement. While the spontaneous, voluntary and decentralized organizational structure sustained protest momentum, the regime has adopted hybrid strategies to counter-mobilize bottom-up activism. The result is widening contention between the state and civil society and within civil society, or the coexistence of regime instability and regime longevity, a trend that is increasingly common in hybrid regimes encountering mass protests.
In: The China quarterly, Heft 226, S. 383-406
ISSN: 1468-2648
This paper examines the diffusion of activism in post-colonial Hong Kong through the lens of the political regime and eventful analysis. It first reveals the institutional foundations of the hybrid regime that allowed the creation of a nascent movement society. It then explains how the historic 1 July rally in 2003 and a series of critical events since 2006 have led to a shift in scale and the public staging of street politics. A time-series analysis and onsite survey further capture the dynamics that spawned the collective recognition of grievances and reduced participation costs, leading to the Umbrella Movement. While the spontaneous, voluntary and decentralized organizational structure sustained protest momentum, the regime has adopted hybrid strategies to counter-mobilize bottom-up activism. The result is widening contention between the state and civil society and within civil society, or the coexistence of regime instability and regime longevity, a trend that is increasingly common in hybrid regimes encountering mass protests. (China Q/GIGA)
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In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Band 226, S. 383-406
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: China perspectives, Band 2014, Heft 2, S. 2735
ISSN: 1996-4617
In: China perspectives: Shenzhou-zhanwang, Heft 2, S. 27-35
ISSN: 2070-3449, 1011-2006
In: China perspectives, Band 2008, Heft 4, S. 84-89
ISSN: 1996-4617
In: China perspectives, Band 2008, Heft 3, S. 124-133
ISSN: 1996-4617
In: China perspectives: Shenzhou-zhanwang, Heft 3/75, S. 124-130
ISSN: 2070-3449, 1011-2006
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In: China perspectives: Shenzhou-zhanwang, Heft 4/76, S. 84-89
ISSN: 2070-3449, 1011-2006
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In: Perspectives chinoises: Shenzhou-zhanwang, Band 104, Heft 3, S. 136-144
ISSN: 1021-9013