2019年, 第2卷, 第2期　
刊出日期：2019-09-10

  

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  Introduction

  Tammy Ho, Michael O'Sullivan, Eddie Tay, Michael Tsang

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 1.

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  Resistant Narratives at the Edge of the Sovereign State: Pirate Ocean and Farmer Enclave in Hong Kong, 195Os-2010s

  Lo Kwai-cheung

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 2.

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  This article analyzes how two narratives about Hong Kong function as hidden resistance transcripts against Chinese state sovereignty in different historical periods. First, maritime piracy on southern Chinese coasts has been appropriated in Hong Kong regional narratives to reflect the city's collective imaginary. Pirate gang was regarded as an epitome of the refugee society of the 1950 s , projecting liberation from state control. Second, inchoate agrarian narratives under the looming power of the Chinese sovereign state after the 1997 Handover seeks to secure the community as a self-sufficient place. It advocates the revival of farming in order to voice the dissent from the increasingly centralized rule, while embedding sentiment for the locality within a series of modern global discourses, such as ecology movements, organic farming, food sovereignty, and preservation of heritage. The two narratives are hidden transcripts that represent potential events to be reactivated under oppression and to play strategic roles in power politics.
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  Silencing the Local: Censorship of Ten Years and the Localist Movement in Hong Kong

  Annie Hui

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 3.

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  In recent years, pro-democracy protests have increasingly challenged the legitimacy of Beijing rule, stressing that the "One Country, Two Systems" form of governance has not been upheld. Echoing the political unrest and the disillusionment of many pro-Hong Kong/anti-China citizens, the Hong Kong film industry has seen a rise in politically motivated works that emphasize the idea of the "local." This article examines contemporary pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and questions the role that social activism plays in the formation of individual and group identity in post-handover Hong Kong and how the very idea of the "local" is seen as subversive by the Communist Party of China (CPC).
  Through analyzing Hong Kong's localist discourse in Ten Years (2015), a dystopian film that exemplifies the revival of political art and activism in Hong Kong, this article seeks to engage with contemporary developments of localist thought in relation to identity formation in a decolonizing space, to interrogate the dichotomy of the "local" and the "national" in order to understand how the former works to destabilize national narratives, and to examine the plethora of tactics employed by the CPC to silence social movements in Hong Kong, including censorship of film and social media. This article will ultimately argue that the extensive censorship of art and media in and related to Hong Kong reveals that the CPC's project is to enforce a unified and singular national identity, wherein Hong Kong localist thought is seen to delegitimize state authority and endanger national sovereignty.
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  Governing Intangible Heritage: Intergovernmentalism and the Structuration of Intangible Heritage Governance in Hong Kong

  Jonathan Paquette, Devin Beauregard

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 4.

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  In 2003, UNESCO introduced a new international instrument: The Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Intangible cultural heritage refers to social practices, languages, beliefs, festivals, oral traditions, and culinary customs. In 2004, the government of the People's Republic of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HKSARG) both agreed to be part of the Convention and implement its decrees. Building on the case of China's and Hong Kong's participation in the Convention, this article contributes to the understanding of cultural heritage governance in Hong Kong by focusing on intergovernmental relations. Three dimensions are explored. First, we try to situate the nature of Hong Kong's intergovernmental cultural governance by comparing it against a number of cases in Europe and North America. Second, we focus on the development of local structures that were put in place to implement the Convention in Hong Kong. This section reveals both practical and political dimensions associated with the policy's development and implementation. Third, we engage with the politics of intangible heritage in Hong Kong. This section examines the political nature of culture and pays attention to the administrative processes that tend to evacuate or neutralize social and political tensions and aspirations. The implementation of the Convention, in some cases, meshes, and in others, avoids engagement with intangible cultural issues that could be contentious or are part of Hong Kong's politics of localism.
HONG KONG STUDIES RESEARCH SCHOOL
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  A “Constitutional Experiment” Before and After the Shek Kip Mei Fire: The Vesting of Public Housing Responsibilities in the Urban Council, 1948-1954

  Chui Wing-kin

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 5.

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  This article investigates the decision-making process behind a part of the constitutional advancement in Hong Kong before the 1980s. I will answer one question: why did the colonial government, before and after the Shek Kip Mei Squatter Fire, entrust low-cost housing and squatter resettlement responsibilities to the Urban Council, the only institution with elected members in the then Crown Colony's constitutional system? Housing affairs were proper municipal responsibilities: in Metropolitan Britain, public housing matters were under the municipal authorities' control; in Hong Kong's port colony counterpart, British Singapore, a municipal authority was indirectly involved in such functions. It was natural and logical that the Hong Kong Government followed Britain's and Singapore's practices when it had to commence a public housing program, which was completely new to the colony. Nevertheless, many colonial officers and business figures were skeptical to such partially elected institution and the politicians therein, and hence opposed the proposal of granting public housing functions to the Council. However, their oppositions were ignored, as Governor Alexander Grantham intended to implement a "minor constitutional change" after major plans such as the Young Plan had been shelved indefinitely. In addition, with public housing functions being added to the Council's purview, the government could win the Councilors' support and keep itself informed of public opinion regarding housing affairs. Through being heavily involved in public housing affairs, elected Councilors enjoyed a rise in popularity among the people. In this sense, the vesting of housing-related responsibilities in the Urban Council substantially enhanced the elected Councilors' political influence in the colony.
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  Wong Kar-wai's Jianghu as Method: Reimagining Hong Kong in The Grandmaster

  Dickson Cheung

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 6.

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  Chen Kuan-hsing's “Asia as method” is “a critical proposition to transform the existing knowledge structure and at the same time to transform ourselves” (212). The prerequisite here is to first identify and excavate the “base-entity” of a culture, which has to be overcome for transcendence. However, the temptation to indulge in enunciating such base-entity is enormous. The rise of China seems to signify an insidious regression into essentializing her own base- entity and thereby muting the multitude. In view of this, this article aims to reveal that Wong Kar-wai’s career is a struggle to transcend such regression, which is “the myth of consanguinity” against which Rey Chow asks us to battle (24). Wong’s status as an era-defining auteur resides in how he uses his jianghu(江湖)as method to reimagine the identity of the people in Hong Kong and beyond. Before The Grandmaster (2013), Wong’s jianghu had always been an allegory of the nativization of a fetishized identity. A lost love and a usually primordial, archetypal and absent femme fatale represent a perfect, imaginary past that the protagonists want to repeat but in vain. In The Grandmaster, however, Wong moved on from the obsession with base-entity and realized that the wushu jianghu, the martial art universe in Ip Man’s time, could be a method to reimagine Hong Kong beyond Chen’s call for ethnic essentialization. In the inheritance of different martial art traditions during troubled times, Wong sees Hong Kong＇s vitality in cultural hybridization. After long years of representing the femme fatale in his films, Wong enunciates an identity of essence-transcending family resemblance.
ACADEMIC INTERVIEWS
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  A Short Conversation with Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee on the State of the Humanities in Hong Kong

  Michael O'Sullivan, Leo Ou-fan Lee

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 7.

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  The Hong Kong Generation, 1967-1984： An Interview with Professor Wong Kin-yuen

  Stuart Christie, Wong Kin-yuen

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 8.

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  The frame for the following interview with Professor Wong Kin-yuen(王建元) was provided by what may be called, in explicitly prescriptive terms, the “Hong Kong generation, 1967-1984”-a brief and unique pivot point attending the globalization of late-twentieth century comparative literary and cultural studies, with a Chinese focus, as it emerged in the Western(primarily American)academy. In the aftermath of Deng Xiaoping’s(Second)Open Door Policy of 1978, both late-colonial Hong Kong(administered by the United Kingdom)and The People’s Republic of China(PRC)were equally committed to the normalizing of relations between China and the West in the context of a broader rebalancing of the geopolitical order in Asia. Set against this historical backdrop, the purpose and aim of the present interview was to understand more effectively the personal motivations and collective capacities of this scholarly and expatriate “Hong Kong generation” as its members experienced PhD studies abroad, at the University of California at San Diego, and as recollected by one of its members.
BOOK REVIEWS
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  Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary. Edited by Jason S. Polley, Vinton W. K. Poon, Wee Lianhee.

  Reviewed by Douglas Kerr

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 9.

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  Conjecturing Hong Kong's Future: Lam Hang-chi's Editorials from the Hong Kong Economic Journal, 19751984. By Lam Hang Chi.

  Reviewed by Ng Meng-hin

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 10.

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  Hong Kong and Bollywood: Globalization of Asian Cinemas. Edited by Lee Tse-hei Joseph and Satish Kolluri.

  Reviewed by Romi Jain

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 11.

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  Contributors

  香港研究. 2019, 2(2): 12.

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