ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how resistance has an impact on the cultural domain. Resistance in response to the increasing influence of the China factor has become obvious and vibrant. Hence, cultural resistance, in the forms of visual and discourse resistance, is adopted to identify, describe, and interpret how such a resistance is intended to introduce subversive, radical, and challenging ideas, as well as perspectives against ideas and practices perceived by resisting agents as subservient, dependent, and dehumanizing. In approaching the Umbrella Movement, attention has been paid to the institutional and political contestation between the government and the protestors within the physical space of Hong Kong. One major tension between Hong Kong and China lies in the nature of the historical and geopolitical relationship between the two polities – in other words, on whether they have equal footing or have an imbalanced and unequal geopolitical relationship.
