Protesting with Text and Image: Four Publications on the 2019 Pro-democracy Movement from Hong Kong Civil Society

Abstract

Introduction On 4 September 2019, the Hong Kong government officially announced the withdrawal of a highly contentious extradition law that had sent more than two million citizens swarming the streets in opposition. As Hong Kong participants in the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill protests (Anti-ELAB protests for short) were having a brief moment of exhilaration, the repression had just begun. Unlike the 2014 Umbrella Movement, in which the previous government adopted the “attrition...