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Counter-hegemonic Resistance in China's Hong Kong

Visualizing Protest in the City

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Authors:
  1. Daniel Garrett

    1. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

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  • Provides a compelling visual narrative of Hong Kong China's 'City of Protest'

  • Vividly captures the “Hongkonger uprising” under Chinese rule

  • Investigates contentious visual politics and performances under ‘One Country, Two Systems’

  • Elucidates image politics in a Chinese competitive authoritarian political system

  • Visualizes street-level counter-hegemonic cultural, political and social resistance

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Daniel Garrett
    Pages 1-114

  3. Visual Struggle

    • Daniel Garrett
    Pages 115-206

  4. The City as Enabler

    • Daniel Garrett
    Pages 207-238

  5. Venues of Counter-Hegemonic Visuality; Days of Contention

    • Daniel Garrett
    Pages 239-343

  6. Cityscape as Oppressor

    • Daniel Garrett
    Pages 345-363

  7. Discussion

    • Daniel Garrett
    Pages 365-393

  8. Conclusion

    • Daniel Garrett
    Pages 395-396
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About this book

This book and associated collection of visual data and sociological observations examine how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has been visually re-imagined, transformed, and utilized by its subalterns in the post-Handover period to reproduce their aspirations and demands for greater democracy and social justice while simultaneously contesting the hegemonic pressure exerted by China under the “One Country, Two Systems” ideology. It provides a rich visual description and narrative of how Hong Kong’s many repressed social and political actors have struggled to make their voices heard under its competitive authoritarian political system. The book addresses the growing scholarly interest in the visual analysis of global protests and social movements as salient sources of sociological data and on the creation of meaning.  By innovatively tackling the visual culture and visuality of subaltern resistance in Hong Kong it contributes to our understanding of contentious SAR-China politics and the New Social Movement, and will be of great interest to Hong Kong, resistance, social movement, and visual studies scholars.     

Authors and Affiliations

  • City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Daniel Garrett

About the author

Dan is a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong in the Department of Applied Social Sciences. His thesis focuses on Hong Kong-China relations under the 'One Country, Two Systems' policy and the consequences of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic moral panics over sovereignty, patriotism, and national identity in post-Handover Hong Kong. He has lived and worked in Asia and in the United States working in the Information Communication and Technology (ICT), information security, and national security fields for nearly three decades. His graduate work involved the convergence of visual and verbal communications and undergraduate emphasis was in U.S. diplomatic history in East Asia and Japanese history. He has presented papers on China and Hong Kong topics and U.S.-Sino relations at conferences in Asia, Europe, South America, and North America. Dan's publications in 2013 and 2014 cover issues such as anti-communist sentiment in Hong Kong; the use of the People's Liberation Army as a Chinese soft power resource; subaltern political iconography resisting hegemony in competitive authoritarian political systems; online visual resistance; and, the visualization of counter-hegemonic moral panics. His published scholarly work presents a visual investigation of increasing tensions between Hong Kong and mainland China over cultural, social, and political integration.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Counter-hegemonic Resistance in China's Hong Kong

  • Book Subtitle: Visualizing Protest in the City

  • Authors: Daniel Garrett

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-236-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-235-7Published: 21 November 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1196-2Published: 27 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-236-4Published: 09 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 396

  • Number of Illustrations: 530 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Science

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