Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement
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He Mingxiu has managed to divide, conquer, rationalize,
Ho Mong-Sho has managed to divide, conquer, rationalize,
and analyze this complex topic of the relations,
sentiments and movements (Sunflower and Umbrella) in both Taiwan and Hongkong towards People's Republic of China.
The book having been published relatively recently in 2019,
it addresses many of the issues seen today and gives insight to the current situation. \cite{sunflower}
Importantly, the author is a professor of sociology at the national taiwan university, as well as the author of \emph{Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises}.\cite{sunflower}
As such, the author is clearly quite knowledgeable on the current situation in taiwan as well as its historic evolution.
This book was chosen specifically, because of its rational approach to social movements and the case studies of the recent timely social movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
@@ -11,3 +11,16 @@ as well as Beijing's imminent power and presence over the affected regions.
Naturally, this fact is not ignored in this incredibly well written book,
yet it does not bring the importance necessitated by such a central question to the table.
Another question that one might ask is,
how does all of this relate to a potential struggle that the reader might face personally.
Again, the reasoning and thought experiments the author makes throughout this book lay out a solid foundation,
yet it is very much based on societal norms found in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Hence it may be difficult to find anything more other than inspiration and some generic principles that might be found in a book on management.
Conversely, one might argue that `students' do not carry the same philosophical and moral obligations in other parts of the world,
where historical reforms may have had an academic background (such as marxism) but were carried out predominantly by lower and middle class citizens as opposed to students.
This has the potential to upend quite some of the reasoning found in this book.
Despite some of these shortcomings,
Ho gives the reader some great pointers concerning social movements and reading it is an eye opening experience, both in terms of social movements as well as the rapidly developing situation in Taiwan and Hong Kong
