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This groundbreaking study offers the first comprehensive analysis of misogyny within the Eastern context, and uniquely, within Hong Kong’s digital landscape during the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests. Centred on the Golden Forum, Hong Kong’s only right-leaning online community with a distinct subculture, Misogyny Beyond the West explores how misogyny manifests and circulates online in times of sociopolitical upheaval.
By conceptualising misogyny as a distortion of the public sphere, Chris Tsui positions the Golden Forum as one of the last remaining digital spaces for public discourse in Hong Kong’s post-National Security Law era. Through a two-phase research design including qualitative content analysis of forum posts and interviews with forum members and managers—this work uncovers both overt and subtle expressions of misogyny, revealing how contempt for women permeates online interactions and potentially influences offline relationships and societal norms. Challenging Western-centric definitions, Tsui proposes a spectrum-based understanding of misogyny, highlighting the dangers of its normalisation and the invisibility of its more subtle but equally harmful manifestations.
Insightful reading for scholars of digital media, gender and Asian studies, Misogyny Beyond the West offers a timely intervention into the study of misogyny and the public sphere in a region where democracy and dissent are increasingly under threat.
In Misogyny Beyond the West: The Hong Kong Golden Forum During Protests, Chris Tsui takes readers on a remarkable journey into an online space where pro-democracy sentiment and misogynist othering intersect in ways that are both unsettling and illuminating. By focusing on a digital public outside the West, Tsui broadens our perspective, demonstrating, via a detailed and deeply contextual account, how political ideals and cultural norms shape interactions, and how misogyny is a central part of that dynamic.
Rich in data, Tsui reveals how misogyny manifests, how it is received, and why it matters – providing critical insight into the global conversation about online misogyny. This book will interest readers focused on digital culture, democracy, and gender.
— Bernhard Forchtner, School of Arts, Media, and Communication, University of Leicester
For anyone concerned about anti-feminist backlash, the normalisation of misogyny in digital spaces, and the broader move toward reactionary politics, this book is both timely and necessary. Misogyny Beyond the West makes a substantial contribution to feminist scholarship, digital sociology, and the study of online cultures.
— Kaitlynn Mendes, Department of Sociology, Western University
Chris Tsui is a PhD graduate at the School of Arts, Media and Communication, University of Leicester. His research interests include new media and gender studies, Hong Kong studies, and modern Chinese literature.
Chapter 1. Inside the Golden Forum: The Normalisation of Misogyny
Chapter 2. Hong Kong and the Golden Forum: History and Culture
Chapter 3. The Public Sphere: Deliberative Democracy and its Development
Chapter 4. Misogyny: A Study Beyond the West
Chapter 5. Not Always Obvious: The Manifestations of Misogyny in the Golden Forum
Chapter 6. Responses to Online Misogyny: Impacts and Challenges in the Golden Forum
Chapter 7. Between Protests and Prejudice: Misogyny and the Jeopardy of Democracy