Proud and Angry: Political Culture in Post-British Hong Kong

Proud and Angry addresses the question of what drove two million Hongkongers to the streets in 2019 in the largest ever protest in this post-colonial society.It answers this question by examining Hong Kong's unique post-colonial political culture where the former colonists left but the new ruler was unable to establish itself under the institutional design of One Country Two Systems.In this political vacuum, local Hongkongers desperately searched for a new political identity based on Hong Kong's indigenous culture; they felt angry about being abandoned by the British but were too proud to be associated with the Chinese mainlanders who are perceived as newly rich but unsophisticated.They accepted Chinese sovereignty in Hong Kong but resisted being integrated into the Chinese state.They demonstrated a strong populist tendency to protest on the street even after the passage of the Hong Kong National Security Law.As for the factors that encouraged the development of this political culture,