G Tang
Biographic Data
| ID | 29722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Tang |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Tang |
| SIGNATURE | TANG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5274-9879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Political trust under shifting state–society relations: Citizenship and political efficacy of Hong Kong in the early 2020s
This article investigates two questions. Conceptually, it examines the formation of political trust amid expanding state power over a chilling civil society. This question echoes to the persistent scholarly concerns over the retreats of democratic institutions and practices under both liberal and authoritative contexts. Empirically, this article addresses an intriguing finding deriving from two populational surveys of Hong Kong in 2020 and 2024. …
Loyal to What and Whom? Relational Loyalty and Migration Decision-Making in Hong Kong
What prompts citizens to stay or leave when political conditions deteriorate in their homeland? Traditional theories suggest that loyalty to one's homeland encourages individuals to stay rather than emigrate. Yet, there is limited empirical research examining how specific forms of loyalty influence emigration decision-making. This article analyzes loyalty through a relational lens, focusing on the ideological distance citizens perceive between th…
Weakened dutiful citizenship as movement’s aftermath? The mediating role of perceived fairness of judiciary
Political Tolerance and Forms of Active News Avoidance
Uncovering Economic Grievances behind Radical Protests: Revisiting People’s Support for the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong
The Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in 2019 sparked the most radical mass protests seen in Hong Kong since the transfer of sovereignty. Scholars have proposed various explanations for the radicalization of the protests, as well as for the mass support for this radicalization across various sectors of society. However, economic grievances have been relatively downplayed in attempts to understand the radical protests. Using data from a survey conduc…
Journalists as actors of democratic resilience: Independent online media in autocratizing Hong Kong
Studies of democratic resilience typically focus on the role of political institutions in resisting autocratization. Few studies focus on the roles of social actors in resisting autocratization even after institutional breakdown. This study offers a case study of Hong Kong, where the enactment of the National Security Law (NSL) in 2020 had ushered in a process of rapid autocratization and disrupted the status quo of the city as a hybrid regime. I…
Protest memories and individual persistence: Examining Participants’ Intention to Remember a Movement Under Democratic Backsliding
Citizens in transit: Diasporic citizenship of Hongkongers living as British national overseas migrants in the United Kingdom
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong
Exploring the formation of choice-based citizenship: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong natives vis-à-vis Chinese immigrants
This study explores and compares the formation of choice-based citizenship between locally-born Hong Kong natives and Chinese immigrants. Unlike the conventional ‘duty-bound’ concept of citizenship, choice-based citizenship emphasises the autonomy of citizens to practice the civic virtues they consider important, rather than merely fulfilling conventional civic duties. It is considered a more progressive norm of citizenship. With results from a p…
News Innovation Under Rapid Political Change: Influence of State-Society Relations, Organizational Culture, and Critical Events
Extant discussions of news media innovation have largely focused on the impact of media technologies, market forces, and audience reception. This article examines how political dynamics in transitional societies shape news media innovation. It argues that, in such contexts, news media innovation can be understood as a contingent outcome driven by changing state-society relations, mediated by organizational factors, and punctuated by critical poli…
Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: Examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests
Despite the extensive research on police use of social media for crisis communication, their post-crisis social media activity warrants further exploration. This paper analyses 4,177 posts from the Hong Kong Police Force's (HKPF) Facebook page from June 2018 to May 2021, covering periods before, during, and after the wave of violent protests in 2019. The study found that, during the protest movement, the HKPF's social media agenda underwent a sig…
Media Self-Censorship in a Self-Censoring Society: Transformation of Journalist-Source Relationships in Hong Kong
In authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries where the news media and the society are under tight political control, media self-censorship cannot be understood in isolation from society-wide self-censorship. Based on this premise, this article examines the problematic of media self-censorship by focusing on journalist-source interaction and the media-and-civil-society nexus. The empirical study focuses on Hong Kong after the establishment of …
Instagram and social capital: Youth Activism in a Networked Movement
The extensive participation of secondary school students was one of the features that characterized Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement . Lacking the power and resources enjoyed by adults, how do these teenagers organize protest actions? While recent scholarship focuses on how recent youth activism is facilitated by the prevalent use of social media, this article argues that digitally-based, informal social movement groups fo…
The Intervention of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in the Norms of Citizenship in Hong Kong
Following the post-material shift of post-industrial societies, an evolution in citizenship norms from dutiful citizenship to engaged citizenship has occurred. This paper examines how people's attitudes towards the Anti-Extradition Bill movement are related to these two citizenship norms. Using data collected from a population survey ( N = 817), this paper shows that the people supporting the movement and radicalism perceived dutiful citizenship …
Total Mobilization from Below: Hong Kong's Freedom Summer
This article examines the origins and dynamics of an extraordinary wave of protests in Hong Kong in 2019–2020. Despite lacking visible political opportunities and organizational resources, the protest movement drew resilient, mass participation unparalleled in the city's history and much of the world. Drawing from original on-site surveys and online datasets, we conceptualize the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement as a form of “total mo…
Affordances, movement dynamics, and a centralized digital communication platform in a networked movement
Much contemporary social mobilization is digitally enabled. Digital media may provide the communication platforms on which supporters deliberate movement goals, share information, discuss tactics, and generate discourses in response to ongoing happenings. Yet digital media’s capability to serve these functions should depend on platform-specific affordances and movement dynamics. Based on such premises, this article examines how the online forum L…
Hong Kong Media: Interaction Between Media, State and Civil Society
The construction of investor-subjects in a housing-led growth society: The case of Hong Kong
The question of how investor-subjects are constructed in a financialized society is rarely examined by empirical data in the literature of financialization. This study examines the role of perception of housing in the culture of financialization, with the data of a population survey in Hong Kong (N = 1,020), a financialized society with growth mainly driven by property. This research reveals that the perceived importance of investment in improvin…
Surveying Spontaneous Mass Protests: Mixed-mode Sampling and Field Methods
Protest survey is a standard tool for scholars to understand protests. However, although protest survey methods are well established, the occurrence of spontaneous and leaderless protests has created new challenges for researchers. Not only do their unpredictable occurrences hinder planning, their fluidity also creates problems in obtaining representative samples. This article addresses these challenges based on our research during Hong Kong’s An…
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Bill Movement
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong was marked by a significant degree of tactical radicalisation in its first six months. Yet the movement also succeeded in maintaining a high degree of solidarity and public support. This article explains how tactical radicalisation and public receptiveness toward radical actions was achieved. It does this by drawing upon protest onsite survey data, public opinion poll data,…
Affective solidarity: How guilt enables cross-generational support for political radicalization in Hong Kong
The extant social movement literature tends to regard the youth as radical actors and senior citizens as conservative actors. However, the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong exhibited strong solidarity among protesters across generations, despite the radicalization of protest actions over an extended period. These phenomena contradict Hong Kong's traditional political culture, which favors peaceful and orderly protests and the worldwide …
Postmaterialism and the Perceived Quality of Elections: A Study of the Moderation Effect of a Critical Event
Politically Motivated Internet Addiction: Relationships among Online Information Exposure, Internet Addiction, Fomo, Psychological Well-being, and Radicalism in Massive Political Turbulence
This research examines the mediating role of the tendency for Internet addiction, fear of missing out (FOMO), and psychological well-being in the relationship between online exposure to movement-related information and support for radical actions. A questionnaire survey that targets tertiary students was conducted during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement (N = 290). The findings reveal the mediating effect of Internet ad…
Five Demands and (Not Quite) Beyond
This article examines the Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement and uses claim making and claim transformation as a window to look at ideological struggle in Hong Kong. The analysis recounts the emergence of a specific configuration of movement claims: the supplementation of the moderate “Five Demands” with the abstract slogan “Revolution of Our Times” and other, more radical demands. The development of the configuration is explained by the …
Challenges and Facilitating Factors in Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: Lessons Learned from the Detroit, New York City and Seattle Urban Research Centers
Facebook Use and Political Participation: The Impact of Exposure to Shared Political Information, Connections With Public Political Actors, and Network Structural Heterogeneity
Some recent studies have illustrated a positive relationship between social media use and political participation among young people. Researchers, however, have operationalized social media usage differently. This article adopts a multidimensional approach to the study of the impact of social media. Focusing on Facebook (FB), the most widely utilized social networking site in Hong Kong, this study examines how time spent on FB, exposure to shared…
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Bill Movement
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong was marked by a significant degree of tactical radicalisation in its first six months. Yet the movement also succeeded in maintaining a high degree of solidarity and public support. This article explains how tactical radicalisation and public receptiveness toward radical actions was achieved. It does this by drawing upon protest onsite survey data, public opinion poll data,…
Affective solidarity: How guilt enables cross-generational support for political radicalization in Hong Kong
The extant social movement literature tends to regard the youth as radical actors and senior citizens as conservative actors. However, the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong exhibited strong solidarity among protesters across generations, despite the radicalization of protest actions over an extended period. These phenomena contradict Hong Kong's traditional political culture, which favors peaceful and orderly protests and the worldwide …
Postmaterialism and the Perceived Quality of Elections: A Study of the Moderation Effect of a Critical Event
Five Demands and (Not Quite) Beyond
This article examines the Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement and uses claim making and claim transformation as a window to look at ideological struggle in Hong Kong. The analysis recounts the emergence of a specific configuration of movement claims: the supplementation of the moderate “Five Demands” with the abstract slogan “Revolution of Our Times” and other, more radical demands. The development of the configuration is explained by the …
Instagram and social capital: Youth Activism in a Networked Movement
The extensive participation of secondary school students was one of the features that characterized Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement . Lacking the power and resources enjoyed by adults, how do these teenagers organize protest actions? While recent scholarship focuses on how recent youth activism is facilitated by the prevalent use of social media, this article argues that digitally-based, informal social movement groups fo…
Media Self-Censorship in a Self-Censoring Society: Transformation of Journalist-Source Relationships in Hong Kong
In authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries where the news media and the society are under tight political control, media self-censorship cannot be understood in isolation from society-wide self-censorship. Based on this premise, this article examines the problematic of media self-censorship by focusing on journalist-source interaction and the media-and-civil-society nexus. The empirical study focuses on Hong Kong after the establishment of …
Surveying Spontaneous Mass Protests: Mixed-mode Sampling and Field Methods
Protest survey is a standard tool for scholars to understand protests. However, although protest survey methods are well established, the occurrence of spontaneous and leaderless protests has created new challenges for researchers. Not only do their unpredictable occurrences hinder planning, their fluidity also creates problems in obtaining representative samples. This article addresses these challenges based on our research during Hong Kong’s An…
Hong Kong as the ‘Neoliberal Exception’ of China: Transformation of Hong Kong Citizenship Before and After the Transfer of Sovereignty
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong
The Intervention of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in the Norms of Citizenship in Hong Kong
Following the post-material shift of post-industrial societies, an evolution in citizenship norms from dutiful citizenship to engaged citizenship has occurred. This paper examines how people's attitudes towards the Anti-Extradition Bill movement are related to these two citizenship norms. Using data collected from a population survey ( N = 817), this paper shows that the people supporting the movement and radicalism perceived dutiful citizenship …
Uncovering Economic Grievances behind Radical Protests: Revisiting People’s Support for the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong
The Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in 2019 sparked the most radical mass protests seen in Hong Kong since the transfer of sovereignty. Scholars have proposed various explanations for the radicalization of the protests, as well as for the mass support for this radicalization across various sectors of society. However, economic grievances have been relatively downplayed in attempts to understand the radical protests. Using data from a survey conduc…
Protest memories and individual persistence: Examining Participants’ Intention to Remember a Movement Under Democratic Backsliding
Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: Examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests
Despite the extensive research on police use of social media for crisis communication, their post-crisis social media activity warrants further exploration. This paper analyses 4,177 posts from the Hong Kong Police Force's (HKPF) Facebook page from June 2018 to May 2021, covering periods before, during, and after the wave of violent protests in 2019. The study found that, during the protest movement, the HKPF's social media agenda underwent a sig…
Challenges and Facilitating Factors in Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: Lessons Learned from the Detroit, New York City and Seattle Urban Research Centers
P1-311 Lymphohematopoietic cancers and benzene: A pooled analysis of petroleum workers
Introduction There are few quantitative studies on the effect of relatively low benzene concentrations on risks of specific lymphohematopoietic cancer subtypes. Three nested case-control studies among petroleum workers in Australia, Canada and the UK have been updated and pooled to provide greater precision. Methods To improve disease subtype classification, pathology records were obtained; two pathologists reviewed these and classified every cas…
Facebook Use and Political Participation: The Impact of Exposure to Shared Political Information, Connections With Public Political Actors, and Network Structural Heterogeneity
Some recent studies have illustrated a positive relationship between social media use and political participation among young people. Researchers, however, have operationalized social media usage differently. This article adopts a multidimensional approach to the study of the impact of social media. Focusing on Facebook (FB), the most widely utilized social networking site in Hong Kong, this study examines how time spent on FB, exposure to shared…
Online Media: The Growing Arena of Public Opinion in Hong Kong
Hong Kong as the ‘Neoliberal Exception’ of China: Transformation of Hong Kong Citizenship Before and After the Transfer of Sovereignty
Politically Motivated Internet Addiction: Relationships among Online Information Exposure, Internet Addiction, Fomo, Psychological Well-being, and Radicalism in Massive Political Turbulence
This research examines the mediating role of the tendency for Internet addiction, fear of missing out (FOMO), and psychological well-being in the relationship between online exposure to movement-related information and support for radical actions. A questionnaire survey that targets tertiary students was conducted during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement (N = 290). The findings reveal the mediating effect of Internet ad…
Five Demands and (Not Quite) Beyond
This article examines the Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement and uses claim making and claim transformation as a window to look at ideological struggle in Hong Kong. The analysis recounts the emergence of a specific configuration of movement claims: the supplementation of the moderate “Five Demands” with the abstract slogan “Revolution of Our Times” and other, more radical demands. The development of the configuration is explained by the …
Affective solidarity: How guilt enables cross-generational support for political radicalization in Hong Kong
The extant social movement literature tends to regard the youth as radical actors and senior citizens as conservative actors. However, the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong exhibited strong solidarity among protesters across generations, despite the radicalization of protest actions over an extended period. These phenomena contradict Hong Kong's traditional political culture, which favors peaceful and orderly protests and the worldwide …
Postmaterialism and the Perceived Quality of Elections: A Study of the Moderation Effect of a Critical Event
Total Mobilization from Below: Hong Kong's Freedom Summer
This article examines the origins and dynamics of an extraordinary wave of protests in Hong Kong in 2019–2020. Despite lacking visible political opportunities and organizational resources, the protest movement drew resilient, mass participation unparalleled in the city's history and much of the world. Drawing from original on-site surveys and online datasets, we conceptualize the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement as a form of “total mo…
Affordances, movement dynamics, and a centralized digital communication platform in a networked movement
Much contemporary social mobilization is digitally enabled. Digital media may provide the communication platforms on which supporters deliberate movement goals, share information, discuss tactics, and generate discourses in response to ongoing happenings. Yet digital media’s capability to serve these functions should depend on platform-specific affordances and movement dynamics. Based on such premises, this article examines how the online forum L…
Hong Kong Media: Interaction Between Media, State and Civil Society
The construction of investor-subjects in a housing-led growth society: The case of Hong Kong
The question of how investor-subjects are constructed in a financialized society is rarely examined by empirical data in the literature of financialization. This study examines the role of perception of housing in the culture of financialization, with the data of a population survey in Hong Kong (N = 1,020), a financialized society with growth mainly driven by property. This research reveals that the perceived importance of investment in improvin…
Surveying Spontaneous Mass Protests: Mixed-mode Sampling and Field Methods
Protest survey is a standard tool for scholars to understand protests. However, although protest survey methods are well established, the occurrence of spontaneous and leaderless protests has created new challenges for researchers. Not only do their unpredictable occurrences hinder planning, their fluidity also creates problems in obtaining representative samples. This article addresses these challenges based on our research during Hong Kong’s An…
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Bill Movement
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong was marked by a significant degree of tactical radicalisation in its first six months. Yet the movement also succeeded in maintaining a high degree of solidarity and public support. This article explains how tactical radicalisation and public receptiveness toward radical actions was achieved. It does this by drawing upon protest onsite survey data, public opinion poll data,…
Media Self-Censorship in a Self-Censoring Society: Transformation of Journalist-Source Relationships in Hong Kong
In authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries where the news media and the society are under tight political control, media self-censorship cannot be understood in isolation from society-wide self-censorship. Based on this premise, this article examines the problematic of media self-censorship by focusing on journalist-source interaction and the media-and-civil-society nexus. The empirical study focuses on Hong Kong after the establishment of …
Instagram and social capital: Youth Activism in a Networked Movement
The extensive participation of secondary school students was one of the features that characterized Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement . Lacking the power and resources enjoyed by adults, how do these teenagers organize protest actions? While recent scholarship focuses on how recent youth activism is facilitated by the prevalent use of social media, this article argues that digitally-based, informal social movement groups fo…
The Intervention of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in the Norms of Citizenship in Hong Kong
Following the post-material shift of post-industrial societies, an evolution in citizenship norms from dutiful citizenship to engaged citizenship has occurred. This paper examines how people's attitudes towards the Anti-Extradition Bill movement are related to these two citizenship norms. Using data collected from a population survey ( N = 817), this paper shows that the people supporting the movement and radicalism perceived dutiful citizenship …
News Innovation Under Rapid Political Change: Influence of State-Society Relations, Organizational Culture, and Critical Events
Extant discussions of news media innovation have largely focused on the impact of media technologies, market forces, and audience reception. This article examines how political dynamics in transitional societies shape news media innovation. It argues that, in such contexts, news media innovation can be understood as a contingent outcome driven by changing state-society relations, mediated by organizational factors, and punctuated by critical poli…
Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: Examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests
Despite the extensive research on police use of social media for crisis communication, their post-crisis social media activity warrants further exploration. This paper analyses 4,177 posts from the Hong Kong Police Force's (HKPF) Facebook page from June 2018 to May 2021, covering periods before, during, and after the wave of violent protests in 2019. The study found that, during the protest movement, the HKPF's social media agenda underwent a sig…
Political Tolerance and Forms of Active News Avoidance
Uncovering Economic Grievances behind Radical Protests: Revisiting People’s Support for the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong
The Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in 2019 sparked the most radical mass protests seen in Hong Kong since the transfer of sovereignty. Scholars have proposed various explanations for the radicalization of the protests, as well as for the mass support for this radicalization across various sectors of society. However, economic grievances have been relatively downplayed in attempts to understand the radical protests. Using data from a survey conduc…
Journalists as actors of democratic resilience: Independent online media in autocratizing Hong Kong
Studies of democratic resilience typically focus on the role of political institutions in resisting autocratization. Few studies focus on the roles of social actors in resisting autocratization even after institutional breakdown. This study offers a case study of Hong Kong, where the enactment of the National Security Law (NSL) in 2020 had ushered in a process of rapid autocratization and disrupted the status quo of the city as a hybrid regime. I…
Protest memories and individual persistence: Examining Participants’ Intention to Remember a Movement Under Democratic Backsliding
Citizens in transit: Diasporic citizenship of Hongkongers living as British national overseas migrants in the United Kingdom
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Politics (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Psychology (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Democracy (7 works)