“…11 In addition to social movements, Hong Kong has been an epicenter of identity conflicts in China since the mid-2000s (Lee, 2020, 371;Steinhardt, Li, and Jiang 2018). After the Umbrella Movement, localism rose with a strong claim of self-determination and even independence (Veg, 2017;Yang, 2023). There are two major types of localism (Chen & Szeto, 2015;So & Ip, 2020), one is civic localism based on inclusive democratic values (Veg, 2017), and the other is anti-mainland localism that led to anti-immigration protests starting in the 2010s (Yuen & Chung, 2018).…”