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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brian JonesPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781472486141ISBN 10: 1472486145 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 22 March 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 The Taiwan Sunflower Movement 1. Confrontational contestation and democratic compromise: The Sunflower Movement and its aftermath Brian Christopher Jones and Yen-Tu Su 2. The Right to Free Assembly and the Sunflower Movement Wen-Chen Chang 3. Marching Towards Constitutionalism with Sunflowers Jiunn-rong Yeh Part II The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement 4. The Law and Politics of Constitutional Reform and Democratisation in Hong Kong Albert Chen 5. Political Protest in High-Income Societies: The Case of the Occupy Central Movement in Hong Kong Fu Hualing 6. The Nomos of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Daniel Matthews Part III Comparative Elements Involving Taiwan and Hong Kong 7. Unpopular Sovereignty: Constitutional Identity Through the Lens of the Sunflower and Umbrella Movements Cheng-Yi Huang 8. To Punish or not to Punish: The Question of Civil Disobedience and the Umbrella Movement Chih-Hsing Ho 9. Dancing with the Dragon: Closer Economic Integration with China and Deteriorating Democracy and Rule of Law in Taiwan and Hong-Kong? Chien-Huei Wu 10. A Divided Society: Chinese Public Opinion on Resistance Movements, Democracy and Rule of Law Han Zhu Part IV Wider Perspectives on the Movements 11. Democratic Political Obligation with Chinese Characteristics: Civic Defiance in Taiwan and Hong Kong Brad Roth 12. Democracy and Constitutionalism in China’s Shadow: Sunflowers in Taiwan and Umbrellas in Hong Kong Jacques DeLisle IndexReviews'This book is well worth reading for the fascinating insights it provides into the minds and souls of those most intimately involved in the two civil society movements of the title...this volume will retain its long-term value as an essential reference for future scholars seeking to understand Taiwanese and Hong Kong democracy in a more global context...for future researchers interested in these and other political and legal questions, Jones' edited volume will provide a highly readable and valuable reference.' de Jonge, Alice, Book Review: Law and Politics of the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements (August 2, 2017). Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 18, No. 1, article 7, 2017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3012396 Author InformationBrian Christopher Jones is Lecturer in Law at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan). His research interests are in comparative public law, specifically constitutional and administrative law, socio-legal studies, democratic theory, civil disobedience, and law and technology. He has published widely on these and related areas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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