Hong Kong: Global China's Restive Frontier August

✍ Scribed by Ching Kwan Lee

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 92
• Series: Elements in Global China
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms – economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination – around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
Contents
1 Hong Kong as Puzzle
1.1 Conceptual Tool Kits: Hong Kong Studies and Global ChinaStudies
1.1.1 Hong Kong Studies
1.1.2 Global China Studies
1.2 Arguments
2 Global China’s Playbook in Hong Kong
2.1 Why China’s Paradigm Shift?
2.1.1 Hong Kong’s Governance Crisis by Design
2.1.2 The Specter of Global Rebellions
2.1.3 Exporting Surplus Capacity and Exalting Nationalism
2.2 Global Playbook, Local Application
2.2.1 Patron-Clientelism
2.2.2 Economic Statecraft
2.2.3 Symbolic Domination
2.3 Conclusion: Fractures and Discontents
3 Countermovement: Decolonization from Below
3.1 Return of the Repressed
3.2 Events and Political Generations
3.3 First Ruptures
3.4 Localism Unbound: Politics of Belonging (2003–19)
3.4.1 Claims: Varieties of Localism
3.4.2 Action: Peaceful, Direct, Fun, Artistic, and Militant
3.5 Regime’s Turn to Institutional Violence
3.6 “Endgame”: What Was Different in 2019?
3.6.1 Police Violence
3.6.2 Reflexivity and Solidarity
3.6.3 Tactical Creativity
3.6.4 Riding the Global Backlash against Global China
3.7 Conclusion
4 Backlash: Lessons from Hong Kong and Beyond
4.1 A Spectrum of Counter-Movements
4.1.1 Appropriating Economic Statecraft
4.1.2 Usurping Patron-Clientelism
4.1.3 Countering Symbolic Domination
4.2 Coda: What Next for Hong Kong and Global China?
References
Elements in the series