ABOUT THIS BOOK
This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different disciplinary focuses and comparative perspectives from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, one common thread that stitches the chapters is the use of first-hand data collected through on-site fieldwork. This study unearths how trajectories can create favourable conditions for the spontaneous civil resistance despite the absence of political opportunities and surveys the dynamics through which the protestors, the regime and the wider public responses differently to the prolonged contentious space. *The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong* offers an informed analysis of the political future of Hong Kong and its relations with the authoritarian sovereignty as well as sheds light on the methodological challenges and promises in studying modern-day protests.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
[Ngok Ma](http://www.gpa.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/people/academic-staff/faculty/prof-ma-ngok) is Associate Professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong.[Edmund W. Cheng](http://gis.hkbu.edu.hk/staff/cheng.html) is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents Acknowledgements: Ngok Ma &Edmund ChengIntroduction: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong Ngok Ma & Edmund ChengPart A Chapter 1 From Political Acquiescence to Occupying the City: A Trajectory of Social and Political Movements in Hong Kong Ngok Ma Chapter 2 Spontaneity and Civil Resistance: A Counter Frame of the Umbrella Movement Edmund Cheng Chapter 3 Rude Awakening: New Participants and the Umbrella Movement Ngok Ma Part B Repertories and Strategies Chapter 4 Perceived Outcomes and Willingness to Retreat among the Umbrella Movement Participants Francis Lee and Gary Tang Chapter 5 Praxis of Cultivating Civic Spontaneity: Aesthetic Intervention in the Umbrella Movement Cheuk-hang Leung and Sampson Wong Yu-hin Chapter 6 Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from the Umbrella Movement Sebastian Veg Part C Regime and Public Responses Chapter 7Chapter 8 From Repression to Attrition: State Responses towards the Umbrella MovementProtesters and Tactical Escalation Caai Samson YuenYongshun Cai Chapter 9 Explaining Mass Support for the Umbrella Movement Ming Sing Chapter 10 Correlates of Public Attitude toward the Umbrella Movement Stan Wong Hok-wui Part D Comparative Perspectives Chapter 11 The Power of Sunflower: The Origin and Impact of Taiwan's Protest against Free Trade with China Ming-sho Ho and Thung-hong Lin Chapter 12 The Mirror Image: How does the Macao Society readHong Kong's Umbrella Movement? Eilo Yu Wing-yat Chapter 13 Hong Kong Now, Shanghai Then Jeffrey Wasserstrom Appendix 1