Finale to the Hong Kong-style Cultural Revolution

2009 ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Gary Ka-wai Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Revolution

Reflections on the Long March

1987 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 450-465
Author(s):  
Jerome Ch'En
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communist Movement ◽  
Sabbatical Leave ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

In Hong Kong during 1966 and 1967 I had spent the first part of my sabbatical leave reading on subjects completely unrelated to the Chinese Communist movement, while on the other side of the border the Cultural Revolution was raging with increasing intensity and threatening to spill over into the Crown Colony.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database. By Edited and compiled by the Editorial Board of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Database, editor-in-chief Song Yongyi. CD-ROM with hard copy indexes in Chinese and English. [Hong Kong: Universities' Service Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. 80 MB+index 384 pp. $1,000.00. ISBN 962-996-071-0.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 837-839
Author(s):  
Michael Schoenhals
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Service Centre ◽  
Chinese Cultural Revolution ◽  
China Studies

What will not be lost on students of revolutionary chromatography is the fact that the hard cover index accompanying this CD-ROM is a huge black book. In the professional jargon of Cultural Revolutionary historians everywhere, The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database is already being referred to, tongue-in-cheek, as the hei cailiao – “black materials” – of editor-in-chief, Song Yongyi. Readable on most MS Windows platforms capable of displaying Chinese characters, it comes with a built-in search-engine and comprises nearly 30 million words. Suddenly, it is as if Eric Hobsbawm already had China's Cultural Revolution – and not merely the former Soviet Union – in mind when he observed, after the fall of the wall, that “Inadequacy of sources is the last thing we can complain about” (On History, p. 239).

Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-192
Author(s):  
Yuan-tsung Chen
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
Chen Yi ◽  
Marco Polo ◽  
Great Leap Forward ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
One Year ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
The Great Leap Forward

Yuan-tsung returned to Beijing in November 1960, but she could not forget what she had seen in the Red Flag Commune, and so she planned to circumvent another, probably worse catastrophe. She discussed options with Jack. Both agreed to leave China for Hong Kong, where Jack’s brother Percy ran the Marco Polo Club, a sort of bridge between Western businessmen and China. Jack would work as a freelance journalist. They consulted their friend Comrade Xia. Xia arranged for Jack to meet the foreign minister, Chen Yi, who liked to wear a French Beret. Chen Yi thought it was a good idea that Jack continue his work in a less restrictive environment. But Yuan-tsung and Jack disagreed on when to depart. She preferred 1965 and he, 1966. She was afraid that anything might happen in that one year.

Colonial responses to youth crime in Hong Kong: Penal elitism, legitimacy and citizenship

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Adorjan ◽  
Wing Hong Chui
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Legislative Council ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 1960S

This article examines colonial responses to youth crime in Hong Kong, focusing on the 1960s, when riots involving large numbers of youth drew concern among officials over spillover from the Cultural Revolution in Mainland China; and on the 1970s, when the Government initiated a program of state building focused on instilling citizen identification with Hong Kong, youth in particular. Elite reaction is examined through a series of Legislative Council debates, declassified official reports and governmental Annual Reports. The article argues that youth crime control in Hong Kong’s colonial context could best be understood using a penal elitist framework, one which remains influential today.

scholarly journals Turning Over a New Leaf: The British Government, the Cultural Revolution, and the Ethnic Chinese Community in Britain, 1967–1968

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalton Rawcliffe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
British Government ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This article seeks to explain the transnational development of Maoism in the attempt to legitimise the Cultural Revolution and the 1967 Hong Kong Riots to Britain’s ethnic Chinese populace. Based primarily on a survey of ethnic Chinese in Britain undertaken by the Hong Kong government in 1967, both the British and Hong Kong governments were forced to respond to the transnational expansion of Maoism, transmitted by the People’s Republic of China and embraced by certain members of Britain’s Chinese community who faced inequality and discrimination under British rule. This Maoist agitation in turn forced Britain to commit to the welfare of its Chinese community and foster the idea of a Hong Kong identity that was distinctive from Maoism.

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