Hong Kong Umbrella Movement

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Report

Maarten van den Broek                500602784

Göktan Mengi                        500710624

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Building Partnerships in China Minor

Geography, History & Politics

I. Lewis

Amsterdam, September 28th, 2016

Table of Contents

Introduction        4

Methodology        5

Hong Kong as a British territory        6

The Treaty of Nanking        6

Hong Kong’s return to China        6

The first Chief Executive        6

2014 Demonstrations        7

Electoral System        7

2017 Elections        7

Student Protests        8

Yellow Umbrella’s        8

Pro-Beijing demonstrations        8

Dialogues        9

Aftermath        9

Two Years Down the Road        10

The current political situation        10

The fear of the people        10

Economical Scarecrow        10

Mong Kok “Fish Ball” Riots        10

Conclusion, the Internal Energy of the People        11

Bibliography        12

Introduction

This paper will cover the demonstrations that took place in Hong Kong during the fall of 2014, also called the Umbrella Revolution. These demonstrations lasted until halfway December of that same year and grew from being a student protest to something much bigger. In order to understand why exactly these demonstrations took place, it is important to look at Hong Kong’s past as a territory of the British Empire, its current status as a “Special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China”, the country’s electoral system, its future outlook and several other relevant aspects that will be discussed throughout this paper.

Methodology

The data used in this paper is mostly obtained from already existing sources of information, secondary research. In order to obtain this secondary data, a descriptive study of a variety of sources was conducted while critically evaluating the trustworthiness of each individual source due to the widespread availability of many “coloured*” Chinese news sources. These sources consist of video’s, online interviews, articles written in periodicals and previously written papers written by other authors. The process of gathering and analysing this secondary data can be viewed as desk research.