HO, Ming-sho. 2019. Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

With Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven, Ming-sho Ho provides one of the most comprehensive accounts of two major social movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Both the Sunflower Movement (Taiyanghua xueyun 太陽花學運) and the Umbrella movement (Jyusaan wandong 雨傘運動) have garnered interest due to the efforts that civil society and youth groups have played in strengthening democracy in their respective societies. From 18 March to 10 April 2014, Taiwanese activists occupied the national legislature..