Assessing Public Prominence in Hong Kong: Contexts and Criteria

Successive political and legislative changes, notably the 2003 anti-Article 23 protests, the 2014 Umbrella Uprising, and the 2020 National Security Law, have reshaped this dynamic. Employing a network-theory lens, the study quantifies the fragmentation of opposition networks versus the consolidation of pro-establishment elites through centrality metrics. Findings indicate that contemporary prominence is bifurcated: one pathway is vetted institutional success, the other is exilic or imprisoned symbolic resistance.