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Securitization of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong - The Rise of a Patriotocratic System (Paperback)
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Securitization of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong - The Rise of a Patriotocratic System (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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In recent years, the city many hoped would help democratize China
has instead become a research setting in which to study China's
increasing intolerance of dissent. Since Hong Kong's return to
Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China's treatment of Hong Kong could
be divided into three stages: non-intervention, intervention, and
securitization. If the July 1 march in 2003 is a watershed that
marked Beijing's change from non-intervention to intervention, this
book suggests that the Umbrella Movement in 2014 is another
watershed that marked Beijing's change from intervention to
securitization. This book is a theoretically driven case study of
the Umbrella Movement, a massive sit-in that paralyzed key business
and retail districts for 79 days in Hong Kong in 2014. Many
Hongkongers believe that they have the right to a fair election of
the chief executive, and Beijing's insistence on vetting candidates
prompted the outbreak of the Umbrella Movement. Drawing insights
from the securitization theory and fear appeal literature, the book
proposes the framework of "security appeal." It argues that the
outbreak of the Umbrella Movement resulted from a premature use of
hard repression, that is, before the government convinced the
general public that the Umbrella Movement was a threat. The
eventual successful securitization entails a general acceptance of
the threatening nature of the Umbrella Movement and agreement with
its crackdown. This book concludes that one of the consequences of
the securitization of the Umbrella Movement is Beijing's eventual
switch to the policy of "patriotocracy" - a system that allocates
power and resources based on one's professed patriotism - in lieu
of One Country, Two Systems. The policy implications and
theoretical and methodological contributions of this book will be
of interest to scholars and students of security studies; Chinese
politics; and various social science disciplines, including
political science, psychology, criminology, and sociology.
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