The Fading of Distinctiveness

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-196
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Lominska Johnson ◽  
Graham E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Pearl River Delta Region ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
New Towns ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
Population Shift ◽  
The Pearl River

The 1970s were marked by dramatic changes in government policies during the governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose. The New Territories became the locus of a planned population shift away from crowded Hong Kong and Kowloon, and the idea of ‘New Towns’, based on Tsuen Wan’s developments, was central. It went hand-in-hand with infrastructural developments, which revolutionized transportation and ended the relative isolation of Tsuen Wan through the MTR. The administration of Tsuen Wan fundamentally changed and the creation of District Boards (later Councils), beginning first in Tsuen Wan, altered the system of political consultation throughout Hong Kong. The 1980s were marked by dramatic changes in economic policies within China, not least in the areas of China adjacent to Hong Kong, which saw industrialization through the Pearl River delta region and de-industrialization in Tsuen Wan. Emergence of a distinctive Hong Kong identity, and a new political culture, emerged as sovereignty over Hong Kong was resumed by China in 1997. Tsuen Wan changed from the working class town that it has been into one dominated by middle class housing developments, much like the rest of Hong Kong, although the villages of the original inhabitants remained.

Diasporic Memories and Conceptual Geography in Post-colonial Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1593 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANGELINA Y. CHIN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Pearl River Delta Region ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Pearl River

AbstractThis paper explores how the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been trying to incorporate post-1997 Hong Kong into the framework of a Greater China. The construction of two ‘narratives’ are examined: the grand narrative of Chinese history in secondary school textbooks in Hong Kong; and the development of a new regional framework of the Pearl River Delta. The first narrative, which focuses on the past, signals the PRC government's desire to inculcate through education a deeper sense of collective identity as patriotic citizens of China amongst residents of Hong Kong. The second narrative, which represents a futuristic imagining of a regional landscape, rewrites the trajectory of Hong Kong by merging the city with the Pearl River Delta region. However, these narrative strategies have triggered ambivalent responses from people in Hong Kong, especially the generations born after 1980. In their discursive battles against merging with the mainland, activists have sought to instil a collective memory that encourages a counter-imagination of a particular kind of Hong Kong that draws from the pre-1997 past. This conflict pits activists and their supporters against officials in the local government working to move Hong Kong towards integration with greater Guangdong and China at large. But the local resistance discourses are inadequate because they are constrained by their own parochial visions and colonial nostalgia.

scholarly journals Calculation and application of eddy dissipation rate map based on spectrum width data of a S-band radar in Hong Kong

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-422
Author(s):  
P. W. CHAN ◽  
P. ZHANG ◽  
R. DOVIAK
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Dissipation Rate ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Pearl River Delta Region ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
Spectrum Width ◽  
The Pearl River

The spectrum width data of an S-band radar in Hong Kong are used to calculate the map of eddy dissipation rate (EDR) with the objective of providing turbulence alerting service for the en-route aircraft in the Pearl River Delta region.  The calculation methodology is different from that reported in the existing literature by also removing the wind shear contribution in determining the radar-based EDR.  The performance of the EDR maps obtained from the conical scans of the radar is illustrated in two examples of moderate to severe turbulence reported by the aircraft.  In both cases, based on the EDR values and windshear hazard factors determined from the aircraft data, the airflow disturbances could adversely affect the operation of the aircraft.  By overlaying the flight route on the radar’s reflectivity imageries, it appears that, in both cases, the disturbed airflow is associated with rather intense rain cells, though they are rather small and isolated.  The EDR values calculated from the radar’s spectrum width data at the locations of the rain cells are generally consistent with those determined using the aircraft’s wind measurements.  From the selected cases, it seems that the radar-based EDR values have generally satisfactory quality.  If such data could be available at the cockpit through data uplinking, they could be useful hints for the pilots not to fly through the rain cells but rather going around them.  The methodology may be applied to the radars in the Pearl River Delta region in order to construct a three-dimensional mosaic of turbulence intensity for the assurance of aviation safety.

scholarly journals 15-Year PM2.5 Trends in the Pearl River Delta Region and Hong Kong from Satellite Observation

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2355-2362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changqing Lin ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Alexis K.H. Lau ◽  
Chengcai Li ◽  
Jimmy C.H. Fung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Satellite Observation ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Pearl River Delta Region ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pearl River
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