01_introduction.tex

@@ -4,14 +4,17 @@ Throughout his work
     Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven:
     Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement
 }
-Ho Mong-Sho 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}
+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.
+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.
 
 

02_summary.tex

@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
 The book begins by analyzing the historical parallels and lack thereof between Hongkong and Taiwan.
 Further, a clear thorough introduction on the respective relationships between the PRC and Hongkong and Taiwan.
 It is argued,
-that china's growing power has aided in establishing a feeling of identity different of chinese in both Taiwan and Hongkong. \cite{kwan}
+that china's growing power has aided in establishing a feeling of identity different of chinese in both Taiwan and Hongkong.
+\cite{kwan}
 
 Following this revelation,
 the creation and evolution of movements is analyzed,
-taking into account preexisting struggles, student associations, political parties and various other participants.
+taking into account preexisting struggles,
+student associations,
+political parties and various other participants.
 
-Using the classification of opportunity, threat and standoff \cite{kwan},
+Using the classification of opportunity,
+threat and standoff \cite{kwan},
 the events in both the Sunflower and Umbrella movements are discussed.
 Following this dissection of events,
 they are analyzed with respect to spontaneous improvisation that was often necessary.
@@ -18,5 +22,6 @@ the book goes on to take into account of what happened after the movements have
 It is discussed that the sunflower movement distanced itself from activism to focus their efforts more onto politics,
 considering the movement a success.
 
-Equally, the flip-side is considered with the ``failed'' Umbrella movement in Hongkong and where it fell short. \cite{diplomat}
+Equally, the flip-side is considered with the ``failed'' Umbrella movement in Hongkong and where it fell short.
+\cite{diplomat}
 

03_discussion.tex

@@ -23,4 +23,5 @@ 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
+Ho gives the reader some great pointers concerning social movements and reading his work is an eye opening experience,
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+both in terms of social movements as well as the rapidly developing situation in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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04_conclusion.tex

 \section{Conclusion}
 This work is an amazingly detailed and eye opening read that I have thoroughly enjoyed.
+Especially since these movements were orchestrated by students,
+I find it reasonable to read an academic view of the all that has happened,
+which explains correlations and describes beautifully for the rest of the world what was happening.
+
+In terms of the work itself,
+the writing is phenomenal.
+Nonetheless my engineering opinion is that this book could have been greatly improved with the inclusion of more
+diagram, tables, figures, and schematics.
+
+Although this book has tickled my academic interest,
+but has not substantially furthered my curiosity or challenged my intellect beyond that which was already achieved by the course HUM-278 itself.
+As a consequence I would argue that unless someone is incredibly hooked on the subject,
+there may be better ways to further educate oneself on the topic.
+On the flip side,
+although I get the impression that this book tries to be accessible to the average uninformed reader,
+I would argue that it is fruitless to read this book without prior knowledge of the situations in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
+This leaves the book stranded in a weird middle ground where it is only truly interesting to a very niche audience and thus hard to truly recommend.
+

SHS_SimonThuer.tex

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 
 \title{
-        Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the uncertainty of standing up to China
+        The social movements of Taiwan and Hong Kong
       }
 \author{Simon J. Thür \\\small{325386}}
 \date{ \today  }