Challenging Beijing`s Mandate of Heaven – Taiwan`s Sunflower Movement and Hong …

Challenging Beijing's Mandate of HeavenTaiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement\nAuthor(s): Ming-sho Ho\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439917060, 978-1439917060\nSynopsis\nIn 2014, the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan grabbed international attention as citizen protesters demanded the Taiwan government withdraw its free-trade agreement with China. In that same year, in Hong Kong, the Umbrella Movement sustained 79 days of demonstrations, protests that demanded genuine universal suffrage in electing Hong Kongs chief executive. It too, became an international incident before it collapsed. Both of these student-led movements featured large-scale and intense participation and had deep and far-reaching consequences. But how did two massive and disruptive protests take place in culturally conservative societies? And how did the two occupy-style protests against Chinese influences.