The Re-education of Hong Kong: Identity, Politics, and History Education in Colonial and Postcolonial Hong Kong

2013 ◽  
pp. 181-212
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
History Education

Lineage, Food and Ritual in a Chinese Metropolis

Anthropos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Guo ◽  
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Public Role ◽  
The Common

Thirty years ago, the eminent sinologist James Watson published a paper in Anthropos on ‘common pot’ dining in the New Territories of Hong Kong, a banquet ritual that differs fundamentally from established social norms in Chinese society. We explore the recent career of the ‘common pot’ in neighbouring Shenzhen, where it has become an important symbol manifesting the strength and public role of local lineages in the rapidly growing mega-city. We present two cases, the Wen lineage and the Huang lineage. In case of the Wen, we show how the practice relates to their role as landholding groups, organized in a ‘Shareholding Cooperative Companies’ that is owned collectively by the lineage. In the Huang case, identity politics looms large in the context of globalization. In large-scale ‘big common pot festivals’ of the global Huang surname association, traditional conceptions of kinship merge with modernist conceptions of national identity.

Building Houses by the Rootless People: Youth, Identities, and Education in Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-294
Author(s):  
CHUNG-HIN KEVIN HO ◽  
HEI-HANG HAYES TANG
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
History Education ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Reflective Dialogue ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
Ethnic And Cultural Identity ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Education In Hong Kong

In this essay, Chung-Hin Kevin Ho, a history education university student in Hong Kong, narrates his search for civic identity. Composed through a process of critical and reflective dialogue with Hayes Tang, the essay describes the tension between Chung-Hin’s Chinese ethnic and cultural identity and the democratic values held by Hong Kongers. As a student, he and his peers had to navigate these competing conceptions of identity in their coursework and examinations. The youth of Hong Kong, including Chung-Hin, have protested against the Chinese government, and have fought to protect the values of Hong Kong. As a future educator, Chung-Hin has advice for the government administrations of both Hong Kong and China: work with Hong Kongers to help them “build their own house.” Chung-Hin argues that if Hong Kong is to become closer to China, it cannot be done through force or propaganda. Further, Chung-Hin contends that education initiatives that change the history curriculum of Hong Kong schools is not enough to bring the youth of the city to heel. Chung-Hin’s experiences, and his own understanding of history education in Hong Kong, have helped him see that the values of Hong Kongers need to be respected if there is any hope of gaining their trust and acceptance. In this timely essay, Chung-Hin highlights how government policies and historical legacies have shaped his personal experience and educational trajectory in Hong Kong, as well as the other students who are a part of the largest youth protest movement in recent memory.

The Expression of Cultural Identities in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement: A Semantic Network Analysis of Tweets

2021 ◽  
pp. 089443932110122
Author(s):  
Yipeng Xi ◽  
Anfan Chen ◽  
Weiyu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Composite Mesh ◽  
Semantic Network Analysis ◽  
Optimal Distinctiveness ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Identity Expression

Building upon the theories of nested identity and optimal distinctiveness, this study examines the identity structure of Hong Kong Twitter users as reflected in their tweets and how their structure changed over time during the Anti-Extradition Movement. By employing semantic network analysis and discursive historical analysis, we found that the identity structure expressed by Hong Kong Twitter users manifested a composite mesh of a sense of victimization, democratic values, sense of autonomy, and sense of helplessness. Moreover, the way Hong Kong Twitter users distinguished themselves from others was hybrid and miscible, justified by an affirmation for morality. The identity expression changed its emphasis regarding different identity concepts as the movement evolved. Implications on how social movement impacts identity politics, and vice versa, are also discussed.

scholarly journals Street-Level Multiculturalism: Cultural Integration and Identity Politics of African Migrants in Hong Kong

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-57
Author(s):  
Terence Chun Tat Shum
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
African Culture ◽  
African Migrants ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Conscious Process ◽  
African Drum

Abstract Multiculturalism is about co-existence of diverse cultures. Current literature on multiculturalism mostly uses a top-down approach to examine how the governments adopt different policies to manage cultural diversity. However, how the migrants use their own culture including music to enhance integration is often neglected. This paper uses the experience of African migrants in Hong Kong to reveal an alternative account of multiculturalism. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observation with African drummers, this paper examines the role of African drum as a means of cultural integration. It raises the concept of “street-level multiculturalism” for analysing how African migrants experience and negotiate cultural difference on the ground. It argues that African drum music promotes intercultural contact by arousing curiosity and creating friendly atmosphere. Africans’ engagement in identity politics is based on their marginal status. Their ability to negotiate their African culture and their Hong Kong experience is a politically conscious process.

Chinese Nationality and Coloniality of Hong Kong Student Movement, 1960–1970s

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siu Han Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The 1960S

Abstract The present study investigates the episode of Hong Kong student movement in the 1960s to 1970s inspired by the charismatic idea of the Chinese Nation. Unlike most other cases of nationalist politics in colonial societies, Chinese identity politics in Hong Kong not only failed to challenge fundamentally the legitimacy of the British colonial state. It also did not proselytise Hong Kong people towards Chinese national identification and preoccupy Hong Kong society with the Chinese Question thereafter. Propitious colonial modernisation experience acting upon a diasporic population, which found it hard to establish meaningful rapport with the Chinese Nation, had attributed to the eccentric trajectory of Chinese Nationalism in Hong Kong. Local societal and cultural formations were then the eclectic solution to the ideational paradox of colonial modernity and Chinese Nationality in Hong Kong, which, however, remains problematic on its own, and connects closely with the lingering coloniality observed in this post-colonial society.

scholarly journals Sports as a lens: The contours of local and national belonging in post-handover Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Helena Wu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Mediated Images

Through the lens of sport, this article explores the trajectories of local and national belonging in various forms and degrees, which, in turn, bespeak the evolving Hong Kong–China relationship in the larger socio-political context of post-handover Hong Kong. With an eye to cross-border sports competitions (e.g., the Hong Kong-China football rivalry), sport-related events (e.g. gala performance and sports demonstrations by Chinese Olympic gold medalists in Hong Kong) as well as their media representation and repercussion, this article examines the multifarious articulations of local and national identifications registered in the athletes’ and the spectators’ performing bodies, their mediated images and embodiments. The ultimate goal of this article is to tease out the body and identity politics embedded in the production, mediatization and narrativization of local-national relations in an array of official and non-official discourses disclosed through sports practice and viewership partaken in different scenarios.

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