Reorienting Hong Kong{u2019}s Resistance Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism

Offers a unique vision of Hong Kong's future Allows outsiders a unique perspective into the radical politics of Hong Kong's protest year Brings together the issues, from environmentalism to housing to rule of law, that unite Hong Kong's new activists This collection brings together writing from activists and scholars that examine leftist and decolonial forms of resistance that have emerged from Hong Kongs contemporary protests. Practices such as labor unionism, police abolition, land justice struggles, and other radical expressions of self-governance may not always operate under the banners of leftism and decoloniality; yet, examining them within these frameworks uncovers historical and prefigurative sightlines that reveal their significance to Hong Kongs future, and interlaces the citys struggles with others around the world. Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Locating the Decolonial Left Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Grounding the Movement This Is Not Restoration: Notes on a Protest Slogan Preface A Brief History Meanings of the Slogan The Ideological Retreat of the Local Left Local Plight, Global Phenomenon References Self-Determination Through Struggle Between Independent Politics and the Early Pro-democracy Movement Localism’s Contradictions Self-Determination Through Coalition References How to Abolish the Hong Kong Police The Hong Kong Police’s Job Is to Protect the Establishment Abolition Means Democracy Internationalist Abolitionism—Learning from Each Other Challenging Assumptions of Prosecutorial Justice Making Abolition Possible From Activism to Abolition Abolition in Hong Kong Is Now References The Dilemma of the New Union Movement The Birth of the New Union Movement New Union Movement: Its Challenges The Potential of Linking Economic and “Political” Grievances What Should Be the Strategies Going Forward? References Decolonizing Protest Suicide: Performing Life in Hong Kong A Liminal State Between Life and Death Death Against Laam Chau Decolonizing the Necropolitics of Suicide References Decolonization as Egalitarian Transformation: Hong Kong’s Unfinished Struggle Decolonization as Egalitarian Transformation Hong Kong After 1997: Decolonization Lite Toward Practices of Decolonization as Egalitarian Transformation References Material Life Between Liberalism and Nationalism: Hong Kong's Anti-ELAB Protests and the Right to the City Neoliberal Financialization of Hong Kong’s Urban Space The Right to Hong Kong An Anti-Capitalist Identity? References Policing Territory: The Yet-to-be Unsettled Space of the Property-Sovereignty Nexus The Making of the Nexus in the Colonial Context Entrenching and Enacting the Nexus in Hong Kong Under Chinese Sovereignty Defense Discrimination Differentiation Coda: Buying Bricks? Throwing Bricks? References To Become Something More: Decolonial and Pedagogical Village Encounters The Grammar of Coloniality Convivial Resistance Amidst Eviction Connecting Land Resistance Movements References Decolonizing Hong Kong Television: Decolonial Vernaculars and the History of RTHK De-westernizing and Decolonizing Television History The Colonial Roots of RTHK and Decolonial Vernaculars Colonial Censorship and Decolonial Reflection in Ann Hui’s Bridge (1978) TV Parody and Headliner (1989–2020) Conclusion: The Afterlives of Decolonial Vernaculars References Awakening Christianity as a Decolonial Ally: Church Resistance in the 2019 Anti-extradition Bill Protests The Concept of Decoloniality The Contractual Relationship Between the Church and State Christianity, Decoloniality, and the Future of Hong Kong References Midnight Blue: Notes on Sex Work in Hong Kong Introduction The Predicament of Local Sex Workers in Hong Kong The Circumstances of Migrant Sex Workers Tensions Between Local and Migrant Sex Workers Sex Workers and Hong Kong’s Political Environment Hopes for a Sex Work Equality Movement in Hong Kong References migrants solidarity committee, autonomous 8a: Notes on Migrant Domestic Care Work in the Age of COVID-19 Editor’s Preface by JN Chien Care Work Interview Series During the Pandemic Part 1: Stories of Carers’ Lives Hands Scalded Working for a Wealthy Family Po Po: The Authority of Housekeeping Another Daughter Part 2: Mobilizing Care Work Written from the Perspective of a misocom member Twenty Years Working in Hong Kong Community Organizing in the Time of an Epidemic References Internationalism from Below The “Hong Kong Card”: Against the New Cold War Seeing Beyond the Binary Global Capitalist Competition–Collaboration The “China Card” From Catastrophe to Rapprochement The Beginning of US–Hong Kong Integration References From the Heartland to Hong Kong: The Case for Global Abolition Cut from the Same Cloth Protecting Whose Peace Today? Our Need for Internationalism Abolition Unfinished, Across Borders References Moving Beyond Projection: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the China Factor Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow Taiwan? Yesterday’s Taiwan, Today’s Hong Kong? Space as an Obstacle to Building Power Between Taiwan and Hong Kong Post-COVID Futures for Solidarity Between Taiwan and Hong Kong A New Era of Repression, New Avenues for Connection References Solidarity with Filipino Domestic Workers Across the Fissures of Empire Hong Kong’s Call for International Support The Political Dismissal of Migrant Domestic Workers Economic Troubles in the Philippines The Delusion of Democracy The Emergence of Migrant Workers Migrant Workers Face a No-Win Situation in Hong Kong Hong Kong’s International Responsibilities References An Island’s Dignity in Struggle: Jeju Island and Hong Kong in Dialogue Reignite Press Preface From Opposing the Naval Base to Challenging Regional Military Expansion The Strategic Location of South Korea and the Responsibility of “Small States” How Our Suffering Is Interconnected The Limits of Nationalism The Irony of Siding with Those in Power References Index ?This groundbreaking book gives shape to what the authors call the {u2018}decolonial left,{u2019} which defines itself against the New Cold War rivalries, legacies of British colonialism, and Chinese authoritarianism, to articulate practices of protesting and living in the space of global abolitionism and internationalism from below.? {u2013} Shu-mei Shih, Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, USA ?This breakthrough collection of essays is provocative, sincere, and makes not only a timely contribution to Hong Kong Studies but also thoughtful challenges to all who are concerned about Hong Kong.? {u2013} Law Wing Sang, Independent Researcher in Exile This collection brings together writing from activists and scholars that examine leftist and decolonial forms of resistance that have emerged from Hong Kong{u2019}s contemporary protests. Practices such as labor unionism, police abolition, land justice struggles, and other radical expressions of self-governance may not always operate under the banners of leftism and decoloniality; yet, examining them within these frameworks uncovers historical and prefigurative sightlines that reveal their significance to Hong Kong{u2019}s future, and interlaces the city{u2019}s struggles with others around the world. Wen Liu is assistant research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan. Her writing has published in journals such as American Quarterly, Feminism & Psychology, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Subjectivity. JN Chien is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His writing has appeared in Hong Kong Studies, The Nation, Jacobin, and Lausan. Christina Chung is a Ph.D. candidate researching the intersections of decolonial feminism and Hong Kong contemporary art at the University of Washington. Her writing has been published by Asia Art Archive, College Arts Association Reviews, and in Creating Across Cultures: Women in the Arts from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (East Slope Publishing, 2017). Ellie Tse is a Ph.D. student in Cultural and Comparative Studies at the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles "This book brings together writing from activists and scholars that examine leftist and decolonial forms of resistance that have emerged from Hong Kong's contemporary era of protests. Practices such as labor unionism, police abolition, land justice struggles, and other radical expressions of self-governance may not explicitly operate under the banners of leftism and decoloniality. Nevertheless, examining them within these frameworks uncovers historical, transnational, and prefigurative sightlines that can help to contextualize and interpret their impact for Hong Kong's political future. This collection offers insights not only into Hong Kong's local struggles, but their interconnectedness with global movements as the city remains on the frontlines of international politics."-- retailer's webpage