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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Foreword: Hong Kong Political Activism Rediscovered -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hong Kong-Rethinking Political Activism -- 1. A Critique of the Claims of Political Indifference -- The Traditional Argument of Political Apathy -- Surveys on Political Attitudes -- A Critique of Siu-kai Lau's Concept of Political Aloofness -- Conclusion -- 2. An Alternative Understanding of Political Participation -- A Critique of the Orthodox Definition -- Toward a Contextual Understanding of Political Participation -- An Informed Definition of Political Participation -- Conclusion -- 3. A Multiple-Case Interpretive Approach -- Historical Nature of the Study -- Collective Dimension of Public Action -- Contextual Understanding of Events -- Alternative Interpretation -- The Question of Generality -- A Multiple-Case Interpretive Approach -- Conclusion -- 4. Rebutting the Minimal Political Participation Claim -- A Chronology of Significant Political Events -- Statistics and Major Events of Political Participation -- A New Comparison of Political Participation -- Conclusion -- 5. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong between 1949 and 1959 -- The Campaign for Rent Control -- The Campaign to Change the Marriage Laws -- The Tramway Workers' Labor Dispute of 1952 -- The 1956 Riots -- The Campaign to Remove a Marriage Ban on Nurses at the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals -- An Overview -- 6. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong in the 1960s -- The 1964 Campaign against Telephone Rate Increases -- The 1966 Star Ferry Riots -- The First Campaign for Chinese as an Official Language -- An Overview -- 7. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong in the 1970s -- The Campaign for Equal Pay for Nurses -- Defend the Diaoyutai Islands Movement of 1970.

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