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South China Morning Post Team. Rebel City
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PATH TO A FIRESTORM
“THE GOVERNMENT WAS COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE, AND LOST CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE.”
Top girl Carrie Lam takes a city to the brink
Rushing headlong into disaster
Too few changes, too late
A funeral for Hong Kong
Too much for a bureaucrat to handle
New year, and a pandemic takes over
The murder behind Hong Kong’s worst political crisis
A love story gone wrong
Confession time
A crisis unfolds
Freedom for some
A fugitive, frozen in time
Kill bill: The law that tore a city apart
Why the rush?
Time to act?
Mistrust of the mainland
Judges judge
Down to business
Lam stews
Chaos in Legco: The pan-democrats' campaign
A strained alliance
Punished at the polls
Blame game
Complaisance at the core
“IT UNDERCUT THE RULE OF LAW ... IT UNDERMINED THE PROMISE OF 'ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS'. IT FUELED SOCIAL CONFRONTATION. IN SHORT, IT DESTABILIZED HONG KONG."
WATER AND FIRE
“THAT IS THE HONGKONGERS’ SPIRIT. WE HAVE NOT CHANGED."
On one mat, no matter how perilous
Defending Hong Kong
Wo lei fei and jung mou united as one
Broad support
Self-restraint mechanism
The cost of embracing violence
The storming of Legco
A night of terror in Yuen Long
Protests, clashes in the city, violence in Yuen Long
The takeover of Hong Kong’s airport
October 1: Celebrations in the capital, clashes in the city
Campus battlegrounds: Five days that changed Chinese University
Day 1: A new arena, ‘rioters’ university’
A bridge too far?
Day 2: The Hunger Games begin
Aunties’ army
Days 3-5: A siege mentality
A farewell to alma mater
The siege of Polytechnic University
From quiet campus to disaster zone
Life in lockdown
A dash to freedom
THE MOBILIZED AND THE MARGINALIZED
“THERE IS NO ‘MAIN STAGE’ ... THERE ARE IN FACT MANY ‘SMALL STAGES’ IN THIS MOVEMENT. EVERYONE COULD BE A LEADER.”
Everyone could be a leader
Decentralized leadership
Resilience or adrift
Teenage tear gas soldiers
Innocence, idealism and burning together
Extracurricular activities
This is our moment
Teenage kicks
Old hearts break
The long game
Epilogue: Tear gas soldier reviews university ambitions
Unbroken
#ProtestToo: Women on the front lines
To the front lines
Testing their limits
Gong nui no more
Darker side
Fighting on
Unions on the march
Ninety-one new trade unions in 15 months
Pandemic sparks a change of plans
We are all Hongkongers … even ethnic minorities?
Signs of change
‘We are all Hongkongers’
Of paradox and forgotten contributions
No unifying stance
Migrant workers in the danger zone
The seven-day week
Cautionary tales
An unspoken threat
Suffering on the margins
Picking up the pieces
Trapped with no transport
Struggling to survive
A song, slogans and Lennon Walls
Stronger than helmets
Lennon Walls: Venues for expression, and clashes too
Slogans and late-night concerts
Unpacking ‘Liberate Hong Kong; revolution of our times’
“IN THE PAST, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT WANT TO FREE-RIDE. BUT THIS MOVEMENT ... EVERYONE BELIEVES THEIR PARTICIPATION MATTERS."
IN THE CROSSFIRE
“WE ARE FIRST AND FOREMOST HUMAN BEINGS AND HONGKONGERS BEFORE WE ARE PROTESTERS OR POLICE OFFICERS."
The dynamics of demonization
‘Us versus them’
Mental well-being at stake
The unwelcome mat for mainlanders
From support to shock and despair
No Mandarin, please
To stay or to go?
‘Renovation’ and ‘decoration’: Mainland-linked firms under attack
Targeting the black heart
Beyond Maxim’s
Backing for the trashing
Dark clouds over Cathay
‘Don’t mess with Beijing’
Turning the screw
Achilles’ heel
‘White terror’
Sunny skies ahead?
Trainwreck
Mid-life crisis
Turn for the worse
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Tycoons caught in a political tempest
Superman and melon-picking
An oracle speaks
Shades of grey
One poem, two meanings
A message, but to whom?
A power play?
Evil tycoon to man of the people
Not the Michelin Guide: When restaurants are labeled ‘yellow’ or ‘blue’
Growing a ‘yellow economic force’
Paying the price for being ‘blue’
Businesses jittery about color labels
Message from the ballot box
De facto referendum
Reality check
Mask battle – distribute or not?
Pro-Beijingers in opposition
The Beijing connection
Liaison office and the disconnect
Getting Hong Kong wrong
What next for ties with the mainland?
LAW AND DISORDER
“IT’S THE GOVERNMENT THAT SACRIFICED THE POLICE FORCE."
Asia's finest in the dock
'Tiderider' turns tide against police
Police's reputation takes a big hit
'We were under attack'
Police compare violence to 'home-grown terrorism'
Battle of the info wars
'The government is to blame'
Frustration and anger on the front lines
Negative narrative sets in as officers mull a strike
Angry showdown with top brass
Fending off attacks and accusations
Becoming hardened steel
The doxxing and the duelling
Wives and children dragged in
From threats to actual attacks
New police commissioner, new strategy
Hard and soft tactics
Another frontline battle: Negative, fake news
Boosting morale
Tear gas: Legitimate crowd-control measure, or menace?
Tear gas gets into people’s homes
Expired canisters, fears of impact on health
Who’s watching over the police?
Lessons from the London riots
Let’s talk: Carrie Lam meets ordinary Hongkongers
Experts disagree over watchdog’s mammoth task
Courts on trial
So many cases, so few judges
Prosecutors working overtime
Protesters attack courts, judge
‘Fair trials need time’
BEYOND BORDERS
“BECAUSE FREEDOM IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD IS THE PARTY’S BIGGEST FEAR.”
The pawn in US-China rivalry
Hong Kong, an example to the world
More ‘one country’ than ‘two systems’
Cross-border ambitions
Local issue, international interest
Under pressure?
Hong Kong’s division sows unity in Washington
Swift passage
Symbolism over substance?
Courting controversy
A living room debate
Forcing the issue
‘A wider cultural rift’
Game changer?
Being water flows overseas
This is Jakarta, not Hong Kong
Unfulfilled demands
Indonesia to India
Chile winds blow
View from Singapore
Different mindsets
The view from the top
Unhealthy rivalry?
A generational divide
REFLECTIONS
What’s to stop Hong Kong’s ‘well water’ mixing with Beijing’s ‘river water’?
Where the next revolution may take place in Hong Kong
No silent majority, only a terrified minority
The furthest distance between ‘one country’ and ‘two systems’
Mask ban an ineffective stick. Where’s the carrot for moderate protesters?
Forget Lam’s extradition U-turn, Xi’s channeling of Mao shows he’s about to get tough on Hong Kong
Is it safe to be in Hong Kong? Against all odds, the answer is still a strange ‘yes’
Hong Kong risks being condemned to its own circle of hell
A new chain of command
SCANNING THE HORIZON
“HONG KONG WAS HANDED OVER TO CHINA WITH A CRACK THAT RAN THROUGH ITS ENTIRE CRYSTAL."
A pause for breath
Not about a bill
Stay firm and Carrie on
Foreign hands
A harder line
An electoral showdown
Stirring for a fight
ANGER GAMES
STRIFE AFTER DEATH
POWER WALK
MARCHING ON
BREAK A LEGCO
RAILWAY ROUTS
GRIDLOCKED
THE ART OF PROTEST
PLAYING WITH FIRE
PLAYING WITH FIRE
FATAL FALLS
MAINLAND IN THE SPOTLIGHT
CAT AND MOUSE
WAR ON CAMPUS
WAR ON CAMPUS
BATTLE OF THE BALLOTS
EYE ON THE FUTURE
RECOMMENDED VIDEOS
GLOSSARY
INDEX
