The forgotten road of progressive localism: New Preservation Movement in Hong Kong

Emotion and consumption: Toward a new understanding of cultural collisions between Hong Kong and PRC luxury consumers

“…On the social media we monitored, verbal abuse toward Mainland tourists also escalated. “Locust” is used to describe Mainland tourists (Chen and Szeto, 2015) because as Ena, one of our Hong Kong participants, noted, “When they leave, there is nothing left on the shelves in Hong Kong.” Some Hong Kongese called upon netizens to bring “pesticides” (water sprayers) to drive the “locusts” away. One Mainland participant, Rita, said, “Hong Kong people paraded in the mall.…”

The Imprisonment of Occupy Student Leaders

“…Indeed, instead of passively witnessing the disappearance of the city's specificities since the 1997 Handover, there emerged an unprecedented level of local concern and a territory-based Hong Kong identity that exceed the discourses of official histories (British or Chinese) (Chen and Szeto 2015). One example is the high-profile development of heritage preservation movements since the demolition of the Star Ferry Pier in 2007 and the Queen's Pier in 2008 (Chen and Szeto 2015;Henderson 2008;Ku 2012). Thinking along the same line as this scholarly optimism, rather than speculating whether or when the distinctiveness of Hong Kong will vanish, it is perhaps more productive to examine the city's resilience by asking what other new cultural formations will be configured in, as well as revitalize, the current state of fragility.…”

Changing Repertoires of Contention in Hong Kong: A Case Study on the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement

“…The failure of the UM resulted in further movement radicalisation, notably marked by "localism" (buntou zyuji ) and its growing appeal to young people in Hong Kong. Historically speaking, localism in Hong Kong originated from left-wing progressive activism in the mid-2000s, and was adopted by right-wing activists to articulate their anti-mainland political agenda starting in the early 2010s (Ku 2012;Chen and Szeto 2015). In the aftermath of the UM, new political groups such as Youngspiration (Cingnin sanzing ) and Hong Kong Indigenous (Buntou manzyu cinsin ) quickly appropriated the discourse of localism that called for a more ideologically radical, pro-independence political agenda.…”