The Politics of Electoral Reform in Hong Kong

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Shiu-Hing ◽  
Y. Wing-Yat
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Headline HONG KONG: Democracy retreats with electoral reform


Headline HONG KONG: Vote will not quell electoral reform unrest


Headline HONG KONG: Legislature could derail electoral reform


Author(s):  
Marco Wan

This chapter examines the cultural dimension of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central movement by analyzing a theatrical production from the period in light of Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology. It argues that despite its purported focus on legal issues surrounding electoral reform, Occupy Central addresses more fundamental tensions about “Britishness” and “Chineseness” that structure Hong Kong identity. It posits that such tensions are creatively registered in Marcus Woo’s Find Ghost Do the CE and that Derrida’s Specters of Marx provides a framework for bringing them to light. It concludes by asking what it might mean to do justice to the complexity of Hong Kong identity in a time of constitutional uncertainty.


1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (11-s4) ◽  
pp. S289-S293 ◽  
Author(s):  
SSY WONG ◽  
WC YAM ◽  
PHM LEUNG ◽  
PCY WOO ◽  
KY YUEN

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