Law and Politics of the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements

Brian 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.

Introduction

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

Index