Civic Passion

Civic Passion
熱血公民
ChairmanCheng Chung-tai
Founded29 February 2012 (2012-02-29)
Dissolved3 September 2021 (2021-09-03)
HeadquartersYuen Long, Hong Kong
NewspaperPassion Times
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing[2]
Colours  Yellow
Website
civicpassion.hk
Civic Passion
Traditional Chinese熱血公民
Simplified Chinese热血公民
Literal meaninghot-blooded (passionate) citizens
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRèxuè gōngmín
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationYiht hyut gūng màhn
JyutpingJit6 hyut3 gung1 man4
Civic Passion founder Wong Yeung-tat.

Civic Passion was a radical,[3] populist,[4] localist,[5] and nativist[3] political party in Hong Kong. Founded by Wong Yeung-tat as an activist group in 2012, it held strong localist views and opposed the involvement of the Chinese government in the governance of Hong Kong.[6] In the 2016 Legislative Council election, the Civic Passion formed an electoral alliance with Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute and Chin Wan's Hong Kong Resurgence Order. Cheng Chung-tai became the only candidate of the alliance elected to the legislature and subsequently took over as the leader of the Civic Passion. After the election, Cheng reorganised the group into a political party and pulled out from the social activism. From December 2020 to August 2021, it was the only opposition party in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

  1. ^ Wai-man Lam; Luke Cooper (11 September 2017). Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong: Localism After the Umbrella Movement. Taylor & Francis. p. 2014. ISBN 978-1-351-80225-3. Activists from Civic Passion appear more concerned to locate their Hong Kong nationalism within the Chinese cultural tradition.
  2. ^ "Hong Kong's angry young millennials: an interview with Joshua Wong". Open Democracy. 1 November 2015.
  3. ^ a b Sataline, Suzanne (18 May 2015). "Meet the Man Who Wants to Make Hong Kong a City-State". Foreign Policy.
  4. ^ Buckley, Chris; Wong, Alan (26 October 2014). "Pro-Democracy Movement's Vote in Hong Kong Abruptly Called Off". New York Times.
  5. ^ 李峻嶸 (22 February 2016). "李峻嶸:泛民和泛社運如何催生右翼本土". 端傳媒.
  6. ^ Ending the party … with thought power?, SCMP, 12 June 2014