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Decades after its peak in the 1960s, “decolonization” has made a comeback as a historical struggle, a global discourse and a sociological subject. Inspired by racial justice movements, there have been lively debates on “decolonizing” sociological knowledge and its canons. Empire, colonialism, and racial capitalism have reemerged as core concerns across a number of subfields. Still, scholarly attention has mostly centered��on Western colonialisms and anti-colonial thoughts of elite intellectuals. This talk turns instead to an ongoing decolonization struggle in Asia’s financial center -- Hong Kong -- and asks how ordinary citizens transformed themselves from complacent colonized subjects to rebellious agents of history against both British and Chinese colonizations. What can Hong Kong tell us about 21^st��century colonialism, decolonization and decolonial sociology?

Ching Kwan Lee is a professor in the department of Sociology at UCLA. She is a sociologist working at the intersection of global and comparative issues, including labor, political sociology, global development, decolonization, comparative ethnography, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Africa.