‘Revolution of Our Times’: Stateless Nationalism and the Work of Slogans in the Hong Kong Diaspora
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines how the slogan 光復香港, 時代革命 (Gwong fuk hoeng gong, si doi gaak ming, Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times)—banned under Hong Kong's National Security Law (NSL)—has been resignified by diaspora communities in the UK, Australia and Canada. Drawing on Laclau's concept of empty signifiers and Guibernau's theory of nations without states, it argues that the slogan stabilizes a floating ‘Hongkonger’ identity and performs a stateless nationalism grounded in symbolic infrastructure, not territorial sovereignty. Using corpus‐assisted discourse analysis (CADS), the study traces how diaspora organizations (DOs) embed the slogan in acts of remembrance, pedagogy, advocacy and community‐building. Despite regional differences, the slogan functions as a hegemonic discursive node, enabling a transnational imagined community. It becomes a vessel of shared memory and moral agency—a performative expression of national belonging in exile. The article contributes to debates on diaspora, affective nationalism and the symbolic production of stateless political identity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".