{"product_id":"take-back-our-future-ching-kwan-lee-9781501740916","title":"Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, \u003ci\u003eTake Back Our Future\u003c\/i\u003e unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTake Back Our Future\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the Umbrella Movement was a response to China's internal colonization strategies--political disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineering--in post-handover Hong Kong. The contributors outline how this historic and transformative movement formulated new cultural categories and narratives, fueled the formation and expansion of civil society organizations and networks both for and against the regime, and spurred the regime's turn to repression and structural closure of dissent. Although the Umbrella Movement was fraught with internal tensions, \u003ci\u003eTake Back Our Future\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that the movement politicized a whole generation of people who had no prior experience in politics, fashioned new subjects and identities, and awakened popular consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ching Kwan Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501740911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501740916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2020","brand":"Ching Kwan Lee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44124253389055,"sku":"9781501740916","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82982fc7-0a0c-4f26-a614-f8742f9da8dd.jpg?v=1687435658","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/take-back-our-future-ching-kwan-lee-9781501740916","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}