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...Venera Khalikova; Ruslan Yusupov Abstract Based on a broader ethnographic study with Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh residents of Hong Kong, this article examines the role of minority religions, specifically Islam, in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. While the protests were dominated by the debates over...

... Kongers in the face of political upheaval. Attempting to pressure the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government into meeting their demands, protestors adopted a wide range of tactics that brought protest activities to previously unaffected residential districts. Although no less hectic than other...

...Marcus Yee Abstract The 1986 antinuclear movement in Hong Kong against the construction of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant was a watershed event. The campaign saw society-wide mass participation, amassing 1.04 million signatures while becoming a global protest that confronted the political...

...Ting Guo Abstract This forum explicates Hong Kong's complex religious and ritual landscape and the ways in which it influences social movements and identity making, in response to large forces of religion and protest around the world today, including in Ukraine and places in Asia such as Iran...

... ignored. As the earliest exponent of “valiant warrior” ( yung mou 勇武) and “be water” militant tactics based on Confucian and Daoist narratives, he had a deep influence on Hong Kong protest culture during and after the Umbrella movement of 2014. This case undermines conventional secularist narratives...

...). The Hong Kong protesters’ creative reincarnation of Lee's legacy, on this account, challenges the nationalistic impingement by the Chinese state and simultaneously repudiates the violent masculinist root of neo/colonialist subjugation, a striking move that calls for more in-depth analysis. Certainly...

... of keywords—prosperity/stability and democracy/freedom—this article underscores the contention in the legitimacy of governance in Hong Kong since the closing decades of British rule. This analysis indicates that it would be unproductive for the governing authorities or the protesters to deny the earnestness...

... religions have most famously become protest symbols with creativity, humor, and satire, in contrast with a secular China as well as the official portrayal of the violence of the protest. The transformation of these local deities from tourist attractions to protest symbols epitomizes Hong Kong's emerging...

... Movement and Taiwan's Sunflower Movement, which broke out just before and helped inspire the Hong Kong protests, has never been more critical. Ming-sho Ho's Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement offers much-needed data on where, why...

... Parliament, and the Future of the Region,” in the middle of last year. Then, in late September, after revising it to respond to largely favorable comments from readers, he added a final section to bring in the very different, though in some ways related, protests that erupted in Hong Kong in September 2014...

... of the situation which admit of consensus. Rather than the theatrical performance, referencing and subverting traditional political ritual, which played out on the stage of Tiananmen, it can be argued that the Hong Kong protests emphasized a deliberative exchange, grounded in a well-established tradition...

... of law. Interestingly, both participants who mentioned the sacred buildings described themselves as religious. Our interviewees in Hong Kong noticed similar dynamics. In the wake of the National Security Law, gatherings to commemorate yet another social movement in Hong Kong—the solidarity protests...

...-democracy protest rally in the island's history, reframe popular discourse about Taiwan's political and social trajectory, precipitate the midterm electoral defeat of the ruling party, and prefigure unprecedented protest in nearby Hong Kong. 2 The direct trigger for the protest was the perceived...

... with China and to protest against authoritarian British colonial practices. It was from the ranks of newly politicized college graduates that many future prodemocracy activists were recruited into the service professions. In Hong Kong as elsewhere, the student movement had run its course by the late 1970s...

... not always a similar strategy, has pervaded this special forum on religion, social movements, and identity in Hong Kong. The 2019 anti–extradition law amendment bill (anti-ELAB) protests did not only present on the world stage the multiple dimensions of local everyday life in what Lim calls this “indelible...

... Kong matters to China's economy and how the struggle for democracy was closely tied to identification with the city. Chinese and Hong Kong officials might be surprised by the population's widespread support for the protesters during the anti-extradition protests in 2019, yet such sentiment...

... foundationalist passion in the hunger strike on Tiananmen Square in May 1989, where student protesters appealed to the corporeal performance of starvation to contest the state authority. It also brings to mind the chain of suicides since July 2019 in Hong Kong's antigovernment protests, which ignited more...

... be allowed to compete in elections after 1997. Furthermore, Beijing tolerated political protests in Hong Kong, even when the protests shouted offensive slogans against Beijing leaders. Beijing's moderate stand toward the democrats in the mid-1990s was a result of the waning of emotions surrounding...

..., a depoliticized public, and unresolved issues of communal identity continues to influence contemporary developments. Jung-fang Tsai and Ming K. Chan's excellent chapters on popular protests through the General Strike of 1925-26 contradict the conventional picture of a depoliticized Chinese population in Hong Kong...

...Howard Chiang Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China . By Travis S. K. Kong . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2023 . xviii, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781478019862 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024...