Cover & Notes for Contributors

Boards, Contents & Contributors

Introduction

Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, ““Glory to Hong Kong”: Exploring Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill 2019 (Anti-ELAB) Protests and Their Implications”

Timeline of Crisis Unfolding

Chong Yiu Kwong, “Hong Kong, a Truly International City in 2019/2020: Timeline of Incidents – International and Human Rights Perspectives”  

Governance Crisis and Social Protests

Łukasz Zamęcki, ““The Revolution of Our Times”: Reasons for the Hong Kong Protests of 2019”   

Wai-man Lam, “China’s Changing Ruling Strategies on Hong Kong and Their Implications”

Tim Nicholas Rühlig, “Hong Kong: The End of the City of Protest?” 

Free Speech and Free Press

Chris Yeung, “Free Press under Threat in Hong Kong Protest Fallout”

Wai Han Lo, “Hierarchy of Influences on Press in a “Partly Free” Society: Dismantling Journalistic Autonomy”

Legality and Law Enforcement 

Matthew Chuen Ngai Tang,“A Review of Hong Kong’s Jurisprudence on the Offences of Unlawful Assembly and Riot in the Context of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement”

Lawrence Ka-ki Ho, Ying-tung Chan and Alvin Tsang, “Emerging Issues in Policing in Asia: Civil Unrest in Hong Kong in 2019”

Social Strain and Political Dynamics

Bryan Tzu Wei Luk, “The 2019 Social Unrest: Revisiting the Pathway of Radicalization in Hong Kong from 2008 to 2012 – An Explorative Approach with General Strain Theory”

Jinhyeok Jang, “Another Dynamics of Contention in Hong Kong: Dimensionality in Roll Call Voting in the 6th Term Legislative Council, 2016-2020”

Postscript

Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, “From the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Protests to China’s Wuhan Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Outbreak: Implications of Two Crises for the Chinese Communist Party’s Governance Model”

Commentary

Jason Hung, “Civil Liberties Eroding in the Aftermath of Hong Kong’s Socio-political Unrest (2019-20): A Discussion on the City’s Financial (Un)Sustainability”