Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Foreword: Hong Kong Political Activism Rediscovered; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hong Kong-Rethinking Political Activism; 1. A Critique of the Claims of Political Indifference; The Traditional Argument of Political Apathy; Surveys on Political Attitudes; A Critique of Siu-kai Lau's Concept of Political Aloofness; Conclusion; 2. An Alternative Understanding of PoliticalParticipation; A Critique of the Orthodox Definition
Toward a Contextual Understanding of Political ParticipationAn Informed Definition of PoliticalParticipation; Conclusion; 3. A Multiple-Case Interpretive Approach; Historical Nature of the Study; Collective Dimension of Public Action; Contextual Understanding of Events; Alternative Interpretation; The Question of Generality; A Multiple-Case Interpretive Approach; Conclusion; 4. Rebutting the Minimal PoliticalParticipation Claim; A Chronology of Significant Political Events; Statistics and Major Events of PoliticalParticipation; A New Comparison of PoliticalParticipation; Conclusion
5. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong between 1949 and 1959The Campaign for Rent Control; The Campaign to Change the Marriage Laws; The Tramway Workers' Labor Dispute of 1952; The 1956 Riots; The Campaign to Remove a Marriage Ban on Nurses at the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals; An Overview; 6. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong in the 1960s; The 1964 Campaign against Telephone Rate Increases; The 1966 Star Ferry Riots; The First Campaign for Chinese as an Official Language; An Overview; 7. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong in the 1970s; The Campaign for Equal Pay for Nurses
Defend the Diaoyutai Islands Movement of 1970The Godber Issue; The 1975 Campaign against Telephone Rate Increases; The Campaign to Reopen the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee Secondary School; An Overview; 8. Political Discourses and Political Activism; Competing National Identities; Liberalism; Rights and Economic Fairness; Criticisms of Colonialism; Conclusion; 9. The Culture of Depoliticization and Political Activism; The Trajectory of the Culture of Depoliticization; The Making of a Depoliticized Culture; Beyond Political Indifference; Conclusion; 10. Conclusion; Epilogue
Change of Sovereignty and Limited Electoral ReformPolitical Activism; Patterns of PoliticalParticipation; The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization; The Discourse of Political Indifference; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
