Going 'Back' and Staying 'Out
Articulating the postcolonial Hong Kong subjects in the development of China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12422792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuk-Lin Renita Wong (0009-0003-1865-8214), Yuk‐lin Renita Wong (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 30 |
| Pages | 141-159 |
| Publication date | 2002-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10670560120091183 |
| OpenAlex | W2170868120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
In examining the Hong Kongers' participation in the social development of China, I suggest that China-development provides an important local site for the study of Chinese postcoloniality. Not only does it disclose the multiple and contradicting effects of colonial power, it also embodies the conflicting visions of modern China between the official Grand Narrative of modern Chinese nationhood and the local narratives of modern Chineseness. It became a site that created discursive possibilities for individual Hong Kongers to negotiate their ambivalent identification with and resistance to China. In this paper, I show how Hong Kongers were constructed as 'free subjects' under the British colonial discourse of liberalism which in turn shaped the Hong Kong discourse of China-development. Circulating in China-development was the image of China as the oppressive and corrupt 'inside' and Hong Kong as a free 'outside' space of accountability and equality of opportunities. Vacillating between East and West, Hong Kongers came to represent themselves as modern Chinese towards which they worked to develop their mainland compatriots
Ambivalence · China · Colonialism · Literature · Mainland China · Media studies · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2017 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |