From British colony to special administrative region of China: Embracing human rights in Hong Kong

2006 ◽  
pp. 236-276
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
British Colony

Power Dependence and Democratic Transition: The Case of Hong Kong

1991 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 774-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuan Hsin-chi
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
Unitary State ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Hong Kong is a British colony. It will become, in 1997, a Special Administrative Region under the authority of the Central People's Government of China, i.e. a local government within a unitary state. Thus, Hong Kong is and will remain a dependent polity. In a situation of power dependence, the choice of the rulers of the hegemonic country who set the rules of the game is crucial for political change in the dominated polity.

Post/Colonial Bach

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Yvonne Liao
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
British Colony ◽  
The City

This chapter contributes a new post-European perspective to Bach studies, re-examining J. S. Bach as a colonial import in Hong Kong in relation to its post/colonial condition across a British colony (1842–1997) and a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (1997–present). Based on its proposition of rethinking Europe “after Europe,” the chapter considers post/colonial Bach across three specific institutions: The Helena May, a colonial club originally for women members; the Anglican St John’s Cathedral in the early 1900s and “landmark churches” (i.e., declared monuments or listed buildings) in the 2010s; and the City Hall in the later decades of the twentieth century. The chapter concludes with some further thoughts on the symbolism of post/colonial Bach, extending from its significance for Bach studies to related matters of historiography.

The Chronopolitics of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-779
Author(s):  
Robert Peckham
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Time History ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
The Future ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Uncertain Future

Abstract This paper examines the temporal politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that despite the emphasis on digital real-time coverage and epidemiological forecasting, the pandemic has been understood as a historical event, even as it has been unfolding. The paper considers the implications of this ambiguous temporality, suggesting that COVID-19 has made visible a new heterotemporality, wherein real time, history, and the future intermesh. The paper concludes by focusing on Hong Kong, a former British colony and Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China since 1997, showing how the pandemic has become an uncanny rendering of the city’s uncertain future.

Colonial Hong Kong as a Cultural-Historical Place

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN M. CARROLL
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
Television Studio ◽  
Research Institute

In July 1997, when Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty, this former British colony became a new kind of place: a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In the several years leading up to the 1997 transition, a sudden outpouring of Mainland Chinese scholarship stressed how Hong Kong had been an inalienable part of China since ancient times. Until then, however, Hong Kong had rarely figured in Mainland Chinese scholarship. Indeed, Hong Kong suffered from what Michael Yahuda has called a “peculiar neglect”: administered by the British but claimed by China, it was “a kind of bureaucratic no-man's land.” Only one university in all of China had a research institute dedicated primarily to studying Hong Kong. As part of this new “Hong Kong studies” (Xianggangxue), in 1997 China's national television studio produced two multi-episodic documentaries on Hong Kong: “One Hundred Years of Hong Kong” (Xianggang bainian) and “Hong Kong Vicissitudes” (Xianggang cangsang). The studio also produced two shorter documentaries, “One Hundred Points about Hong Kong” (Xianggang baiti) and “The Story of Hong Kong” (Xianggang de gushi). The “Fragrant Harbor” that PRC historians had generally dismissed as an embarrassing anachronism in a predominantly postcolonial world suddenly found its way into millions of Mainland Chinese homes.

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