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The “National Question” and the Stories of Hong Kong

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Recent debates concerning whether the people of Hong Kong constitute a “nation” or man zuk (Mandarin: min zu) have injected much heat and passion to the on-going political struggles in the former British colony. Yet, even among the political and intellectual elites, few in the territory have embraced the notion of a “Hong Kong nation.” The reasons for this are many. One has to do with the ambiguities and tensions embedded in the notion of man zuk. Another has to do with the primary identification by many in the territory with the “Chinese nation.” But, above all, the reason seems to be that “nation-building” has, at least until recently, not been part of the story about Hong Kong.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Information Services Department, HKSAR (2015), para. 10; quotations are from paras. 9, 7. It is perhaps too early to write the history of the “Umbrella Movement”; for an early effort, see Ng (2016); for a useful timeline, see Connors (2015); for first-hand accounts, see, for example, Sanxiaderen (2015) and Chan Tze Woon (2016); for a visual record, see Umbrella Movement Visual Archive’s Facebook page; for a discussion of the languages of protests, see Veg (2016).

  2. 2.

    Information Services Department, HKSAR (2015), para. 7.

  3. 3.

    For the tortuous history of the idea of man juk/min zu in twentieth-century China, see, for example, Shin (2007) and Leibold (2007). For the complexity of the case of Hong Kong, see, for example, Ku and Pun (2004) and Mathews, Ma, and Lui (2008).

  4. 4.

    For the historiography of Hong Kong, see, for example: Sinn (1994); Huo Qichang (1995); Wang Hongzhi (2000), esp. 1–69; Li Peide (2001), 11–36; Xiao Guojian (2015a).

  5. 5.

    For assessments of Eitel’s work, see Luo Xianglin (1961), 29–34; Sweeting (2008); quotations are from pp. 94, 90. For Eitel’s views, see Eitel (1895), 127, iv, 570.

  6. 6.

    For the story of archaeology in Hong Kong, see Meacham (2009), 10–41. For Luo Xianglin’s works on the history of Hong Kong, see Xiao Guojian (2015b). For Luo’s views, see Luo Xianglin (1961), 2–5; Luo Xianglin and others (1959), 1–16.

  7. 7.

    For an assessment of Endacott, see Carroll (2005c). For James Hayes, see, for example, Hayes (1977, 1983). For anthropological studies in Hong Kong, see, for example, Watson and Watson (2004). For the works of local social scientists, see, for example, Lethbridge (1978). For the studies of locally educated historians, see, for example, Ng Lun Ngai-ha (1984); Faure (1986); Sinn (1989).

  8. 8.

    For the scholarship of mainland Chinese historians, see, for example, Yu Shengwu and Liu Cunkuan (1993); Yu Shengwu and Liu Shuyong (1995). For an assessment, see Wang Hongzhi (2000); also, condensed in English, Wong (2005). For alternative narratives, see, for example, Yesi (2012); Chow (1992); Abbas (1997); Wang Gungwu (1997).

  9. 9.

    For recent scholarship, see, for example: Ngo (1999); Carroll (2005b); Law Wing Sang (2009); Chung (1998); Fung Chi Ming (2005); Chen Xueran (2014); Zhang Ruiwei (2013); Chu (2005); Ding Xinbao and Lu Shuying (2014); Bard (2002); Ou Zhijian et al. (2011); Cai Rongfang (2001).

  10. 10.

    For reservations concerning “local” or “native” identities, see, for example, Abbas (1997), 11–12.

  11. 11.

    For recent history, see, for example, Mathews, Ma, and Lui (2008); Carroll (2010); Morris and Vickers (2015).

  12. 12.

    For sources of recent activism in Hong Kong, see, for example, Zou Chongming and Han Jiangxue (2015). For the radical turn, see Chen Yun (2012, 2014). For an assessment, see Hung (2014).

  13. 13.

    For the history of the Undergrad, see “Xue yuan liu shi” bian ji wei yuan hui (2015). Past issues of the publication (including the ones for November 2013, February 2014, and April 2014) can be found on the official Undergrad web site: https://undergradhkusu.wordpress.com. See also Er ling yi san nian du Xianggang da xue xue sheng hui Xue yuan (2014).

  14. 14.

    Xu Cheng’en (2015); quotation is from p. 24.

  15. 15.

    On the new tian xia model, see, for example, Zhao Tingyang (2011); Xu Jilin (2013). For cogent criticisms, see Ge Zhaoguang (2015).

  16. 16.

    Lü Dale (2003); quotation is from p. 207. For a cogent critique of the absence of a civil society in Hong Kong, see Luo Yongsheng (2014).

  17. 17.

    For an overview of the New Territories, see Hayes (2006).

  18. 18.

    For studies of Hong Kong from a generational perspective, see, for example, Yesi (2013); Lü Dale (2007, 2012).

  19. 19.

    For the “Hong Kong Week,” see Tong (2016). For the Hong Kong Museum of History, see Carroll (2005a); Wang Hongzhi (2007), 134–75. For a history of education in Hong Kong, see Lu Hongji (2003). For the history curricula, see Vickers (2003); Kan (2007).

  20. 20.

    For Ho Kai, see Carroll (2005b), 108–130. For the history of New Asia College, see, for example, Chou (2012). An almost-complete run of the Chinese Student Weekly is available at the Hong Kong Literature Database (http://hklitpub.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/journals/zgxszb); quotations are from the editorial of its inaugural issue dated 25 July 1952 (Anon 1952).

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