Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong: The Power of a Critical Event

by Francis L.F. Lee

Since 2003, Hong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement. What drove tens of thousands of citizens to the street on a yearly basis to protest? What were the social and organizational bases of the protest movement? How did media and public discourses affect the protests' formation and mobilization? How did the protesters understand their own actions and the political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415532302
• ISBN13: 9780415532303
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"