Sunflowers and Umbrellas
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Sunflowers and Umbrellas

Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong

  1. 275 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sunflowers and Umbrellas

Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong

About this book

The contributors to this volume discuss the similarities and differences between Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. The topics range from movement leadership and political party formation to tourism and art. Perspectives from both the social sciences and humanities are brought to the analysis of the events and their aftermath.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Notes to This Edition
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Movement Leadership under a Polycentric Protest Structure
  9. 2. The Sunflower Imagination: The Movement Perception and Evaluation from the Grassroots
  10. 3. Hybridity, Civility, and Othering: In Search of Political Identity and Activism in Hong Kong
  11. 4. Chinese Tourism as Trigger and Target of the Sunflower and Umbrella Movements
  12. 5. Visuality and Aurality in the Sunflower Movement: Precedents for Politics as Spectacle in Taiwan
  13. 6. Music in the Umbrella Movement: From Expressive Form to New Political Culture
  14. 7. Protest Documentaries in Taiwan and Hong Kong: From the Late 1980s to the Sunflower and Umbrella Movements
  15. 8. From Sunflowers to Suits: How Spatial Openings Affect Movement Party Formation
  16. 9. The Plebeian Moment and Its Traces: Post–Umbrella Movement Professional Groups in Hong Kong
  17. Contributors
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover

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