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Authored on: Mon, 12/12/2022 - 09:35
Authored by: Dexter_Tse
‘Practically An Act of War’: A Cross-Border Arrest in British Kowloon and Hong Kong-China Relations on the Frontier
By TSE Ho Nam
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, Vol. 62, p.123-140
ISSN:
19917295
URL of article:
Summary:
In 1889 a patrol of Qing soldiers entered Hong Kong territory and arrested two villagers from the village of Sham Shui Po. The Hong Kong government launched an investigation. After correspondence and negotiations between the governments of Hong Kong and the Qing Empire, the two villagers were eventually returned alive. This paper will rely on the dispatches in the CO129 series in the Hong Kong government records and discuss the course of events, including the investigations by the Hong Kong police, the interactions between the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir William Des Voeux, the British officials in Canton and Peking and the Qing Governor of the Two- Kwang, Zhang Zhi Dong.

Through this incident, this paper intends to examine the Kowloon frontier in the context of Hong Kong-China relations, from day-to-day cross- border activities to the two governments’ attitudes towards the border. The latter also includes the sensitivity of both governments to the consequences that border issues could bring, their attitudes towards each other, the ideas on modern legal systems and the policies on extraditing fugitives.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
International Relations and Politics, History
Authored on: Wed, 12/14/2022 - 17:55
Authored by: vivienchan
Markets made modular: constructing the modern ‘wet’ market in Hong Kong's public housing estates, 1969–1975
By Vivien Chan
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Urban History, 1-19
ISSN:
1469-8706
URL of article:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/markets-made-modu…
Summary:
This article traces how the ‘wet’ market was integrated into the infrastructure of public housing estates in Hong Kong through modularization from 1969 to 1975. This includes how spatial modularization concepts extended into administration and management, incorporating responsibilities and categories of goods that ultimately reflected colonial ideas of health, food hygiene and social and spatial order. In doing so, this article theorizes how the modular market embodied the ways colonial government departments, architects and managers navigated notions of the materiality of ‘wetness’ in the market through its design in response to management and customer needs, but nevertheless how consumers found ways to re-narrate such spaces through maintaining ‘wet’ cultural exchanges and practices. Using government documents and photographs, this article combines a design historical approach to materiality with empirical evidence to expand on histories and practices of the ‘wet market’, bringing the everyday discourses of modernity in Hong Kong to the fore.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
Urban / Rural, Art and Culture, History, Environment
Authored on: Wed, 12/21/2022 - 10:25
Authored by: Krush
Unfamiliar rhythms and the micro-politics of latemodernity: An ethnography of global Hong Kong
By Krzysztof Z Jankowski
Publication date:
1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2021
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
The Sociological Review
ISSN:
-
URL of article:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026120935375
Summary:
This article explores connection or disjuncture between everyday life and global culture. Efforts to
de-essentialise or pluralise urban globalisation have focused on local negotiations of discourse or
the macro effects of the world city, here rhythmanalysis is used to bridge these approaches. The
analysis develops on the tension between the theoretically-based multiplicity and reflexivity of
late-modernity, and the structured reality that has been documented. The global city is stratified
through spatial and dispositional-embodied qualities that dramatically truncate the possibility of
encountering unfamiliarity through everyday life. These stratifications lean on each other and
replicate as ‘small worlds’ of co-constitutive, comfortable spaces. To explore this, Lefebvre’s
rhythmanalysis is used to explicate participant accounts of going to a nightlife district in Hong
Kong for the first time. For some, the district is present in daily life, contributing to a fluent
connection and orthodox visitation. Meanwhile, subjects who visit under less seamless conditions
reflexively feel out of place and corporally distinct. This article contributes to understanding the
micro-politics of late-modernity, the very real, yet transparent, spatial and embodied barriers
which truncate individual flourishing in late-modern societies.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
Urban / Rural, Society, Diasporas and Migration
Authored on: Wed, 12/21/2022 - 18:56
Authored by: GinaMarchetti
Intersections of Gender, Generation, and Class at Hong Kong’s Border: Precarious Peripheries in Ann Hui’s A Simple Life (2011) and Flora Lau’s Bends (2013)
By Gina Marchetti
Publication date:
1 Dec 2022 – 31 Jan 2023
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Sextant 38 (2022) 21-42.
ISSN:
https://doi.org/10.4000/sextant.742
URL of article:
http://journals.openedition.org/sextant/742
Summary:
At the margins of a male-dominated film industry and working at the border between Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), female directors struggle to make a living in an often tense cross-border business environment. Moreover, the demands of globalization exacerbate the competition local filmmakers face in their efforts to exploit the expanding motion picture market on the Chinese mainland. Nevertheless, Hong Kong female filmmakers still manage to tell stories about women from the margins of society who navigate the uncertainties of life in the nebulous border regions of Chinese society. Ann Hui’s A Simple Life (2011) and Flora Lau’s Bends (2013) make use of the border between Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China to explore stories about women marginalized by their reliance on men, as well as Hong Kong’s increasing economic dependence on mainland China.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
Media, Art and Culture, Globalisation, Gender and Identity, Diasporas and Migration
Authored on: Thu, 12/22/2022 - 05:02
Authored by: mauriceykc
New town planning as diplomatic planning: Scalar politics, British–Chinese relations, and Hong Kong
By Maurice Yip
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Journal of Urban History, 48/2, 361 - 380
ISSN:
0096-1442
URL of article:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144220948813
Summary:
Tin Shui Wai new town in Hong Kong, known as the “city of sadness,” has been narrated by the “Tin Shui Wai Myth” that attributes its urban problems to the planning failures after the colonial government rescued the developers, including a Chinese red capital, from a market slump in the early 1980s. This myth creates misunderstandings, which confuse recent debates about new town development and regional integration with China. To debunk this myth, this article, based on archival research, analyzes the scalar politics of new town planning and explains why the government decided to purchase the land and develop it in a partnership with the developers. It sheds new light on how the regional dynamics in South China after the economic reforms prompted China and Britain to react to the new town proposal at interconnected and contested spatial scales, before the diplomatic negotiations about this British colony’s future officially started.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
International Relations and Politics, Urban / Rural, Society, National politics, History
Authored on: Thu, 12/22/2022 - 05:05
Authored by: mauriceykc
Hong Kong as a property jurisdiction
By Maurice Yip
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 18/1, 1 - 18
ISSN:
1871-2673
URL of article:
https://doi.org/10.1108/STICS-01-2020-0001
Summary:

Purpose

This study aims to explore how urban governance of Hong Kong is impacted by the formulation and implementation of the new constitutional order of “one country, two systems” that distinguishes between the British colonial government and the current government under Chinese sovereignty.

Design/methodology/approach

While the literature recognises the society of Hong Kong has been heavily relying on land and property activities, few attempts notice the uniqueness of Hong Kong’s sequential constitutional orders and its relations to those activities. This study presents a geographical enquiry and an archival study to illustrate the spatiality of the new constitutional order and its implications on land injustice. Drawing from the works of legal geography and urban studies, this study extends and clarifies Anne Haila’s conception of Hong Kong as “property state” to “property jurisdiction”.

Findings

Though common law and leasehold land system were perpetuated from the colonial period, the new constitutional order changed their practices and the underlying logic and ideology. The urban governance order of this property jurisdiction is intended for prosperity and stability of the society, and for the economic benefit and territorial integrity claim of the Chinese sovereignty.

Originality/value

This study enriches the literature of Hong Kong studies in three major areas, namely, the relationship with China, urban governance and land injustice. It offers a conceptual discussion, which contributes to comparative territorial autonomies studies. It also contributes to legal geography by providing insights beyond the western liberal democracy model.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
Urban / Rural, Society, National politics, Law, History
Authored on: Thu, 12/22/2022 - 05:47
Authored by: reichert_frank
Why not? Explaining sympathizers' non-participation: The example of Hong Kong's 2019 social movement
By Anna Julia Fiedler, Amy Yuen-lam Tsang, Frank Reichert
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Sociology Compass, Volume 16, Issue 8, pages 1-20 (Article e13007)
ISSN:
1751-9020
URL of article:
http://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13007
Summary:
Over the last 2 decades, youth-led protests have increased. However, whereas youth mobilization has been widely examined, why some youth participate while others remain on the sidelines has not been adequately explored and remains not well understood. In 2019, protests against an extradition bill amendment led to unprecedented mass demonstrations, riots, and electoral turnout in Hong Kong. Young people were among the largest and most engaged participant groups during the movement. Yet even though protest action became a part of daily life on campuses, some students who sympathized with the movement did not become active supporters. This analysis examined reasons for non-participation using survey and interview data from undergraduate students. In particular, this study analyzed possible causes for the non-conversion of sympathizers into participants and the erosion of protest participants. Differences among students were explored based on their origin. The findings showed that non-participation was not merely a result of the ineffective mobilization of otherwise highly sympathetic individuals. Instead, perceived (in)effectiveness, identity conflicts, and barriers played an important role in individuals' decisions not to participate in protest action. The findings further our understanding of non-participation and are discussed with respect to students' networked participation, the processual nature and individual agency in non-participation, and the implications for culturally diverse societies.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
Society, Other, Diasporas and Migration
Authored on: Thu, 12/22/2022 - 14:44
Authored by: sharonyamsy
The City of Tears: Reproductive Justice and Community Resistance in Hong Kong's Anti-ELAB Movement
By Shui-yin Sharon Yam
Publication date:
1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2021
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Feminist Formations, 33 (2), pp. 1-24
ISSN:
2151-7371
URL of article:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/802390
Summary:
This article examines Hongkongers' decentralized tactics of resistance in response to the government's suppression of political freedom and misuse of crowd-control chemical weapons, especially tear gas. Through the lens of reproductive justice (RJ), this article illustrates the coalition potential between RJ activists and pro-democracy Hongkongers who enact strategies such as citizen science, community medical care, and cross-generational marches to cultivate a safer environment for all. Amplifying the everyday tactics that Hongkongers deploy at the grassroots level, this article also argues that despite the political outcome and measurable success of any grassroots tactics, it is important for researchers to document and analyze these acts as a way of bearing witness. Although they are contingent on specific historical moments and sociopolitical contexts, these tactics can also help inform future grassroots coalitions and activism.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
Society, Health and Medicine, Gender and Identity
Authored on: Thu, 12/22/2022 - 14:48
Authored by: sharonyamsy
Towards a Differential Ethics of Belonging in a Transnational Context: Navigating the Hong Kong Movement in the US in 2020 and 2021
By Shui-yin Sharon Yam
Publication date:
1 Dec 2022 – 31 Jan 2023
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 43 (3), pp. 29-62
ISSN:
1536-0334
URL of article:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/874143
Summary:
In this autoethnography, I reflect on my experience navigating the tension among different groups of local and diasporic Hongkongers as we experienced three key events: the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, the US presidential election, and the rise of anti-Chinese and anti-Asian sentiments in the US. Through concepts from feminist and queer theories, such as differential belonging, disidentification, and transformative justice, I highlight moments of transnational coalition and barriers that render cross-national and cross-cultural solidarities difficult.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
International Relations and Politics, National politics, Media, Diasporas and Migration
Authored on: Mon, 12/26/2022 - 02:54
Authored by: chikitchan@hsu.edu.hk
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021
By Francis Lap Fung LEE and Chi Kit CHAN
Publication date:
1 Dec 2022 – 31 Jan 2023
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Journal of Contemporary China (online first): https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2022.2159756
ISSN:
1469-9400
URL of article:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2022.2159756
Summary:
Much academic research has examined the transformation of Hong Kong people’s national and local identification after 1997. This article further develops the literature by focusing on the notion of cultural othering and adopting the perspective of eventful sociology. It contends that, up to year 2020, an important aspect of Hong Kong people’s identity change was the increasing tendency, especially among the younger generation, to see Hong Kong and Chinese identities as separable from—or even contrasting with—each other. This cultural othering was an ongoing trend augmented by both routinized and unpredicted political events. Analysis of longitudinal and individual-level survey data shows that Legislative Council elections and major social protests strengthened this tendency of othering. This article adds to the understanding of the post-handover development of Hong Kong people’s political identities. Theoretically, the article illustrates the role of political events in the process of cultural othering and identity evolution.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
Society
Authored on: Mon, 12/26/2022 - 08:47
Authored by: Thomas Cunliffe
Implicating the Social Order: The Story of a Discharged Prisoner
By Tom Cunliffe
Publication date:
1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2021
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Film History Vol.33 No.3, pp. 94-125
ISSN:
1553-3905
URL of article:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819833
Summary:
Made and released during protests, riots, and other social crises in Hong Kong, The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (1967) is a pivotal work that transitions between the conventions of the 1950s social-realist melodrama and the crime film that would flourish in the 1970s and 1980s and is a key cultural piece in Hong Kong’s changing structures of feeling during this volatile period. Lung Kong utilizes the crime film to challenge the dominant values of law and order and investigate how the system of colonial capitalist power in Hong Kong impacted social experience. This essay examines and contextualizes the industrial, historical, and sociopolitical context into which The Story of a Discharged Prisoner emerged to demonstrate how the film is a critical site for negotiating the reshaping of values in the emerging industrial city.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
Society, Media, Law, Art and Culture, History
Authored on: Mon, 12/26/2022 - 17:54
Authored by: agillianchu
“If the Gospel We Preach Disregards Human Rights, I Would Rather not Preach This Gospel”: Towards a Lived Theology of Hong Kong Churches
By Ann Gillian Chu, John Perry
Publication date:
1 Dec 2022 – 31 Jan 2023
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Theology Today, 79.4, 422-434
ISSN:
0040-5736
URL of article:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00405736221132861
Summary:
Both pro-establishment Christians, who support ‘obeying the authority’ (Romans 13), and pro-democracy Christians, who participated in the 2014–20 protests, want what is best for Hong Kong and truest to their Christian faith, but they understand those aims differently. The former believe social stability is a way to create space for Christian faith to flourish, while the latter judge that we need to break the current unjust system for Christian faith to begin flourishing. After conducting interviews with lay Christians, we found that both sides can struggle to communicate their vision for faithful Christian political theology. One reason, which we explore here, is that the key theo-political concepts at issue—namely, protest, democracy, and rights—derive from the historical context of post-Christendom societies rooted in the Western Enlightenment tradition. Hong Kong is adjacent to that tradition, but not at home in it. Using the method of ‘narrative portraiture,’ we endeavor to explore their respective theologies. This method uses the participants’ own stories, so that we, as researchers, are not speaking for Hong Kong Christians, but instead illuminating their own ideas. Presenting these lived theologies can remind us, as church leaders, that our congregations are a source of God's revelation to us, even when they may lack the terms to communicate effectively, which is why we should not forget to listen to the “average Jane.”
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
Society, Religion, National politics, Human Rights
Authored on: Tue, 12/27/2022 - 12:32
Authored by: ryanwcchoy@hotmail.com
A comprehensive review of refugee and asylum studies in contemporary Hong Kong: Law, policies, and lived experiences
By Wai Ching Choy
Publication date:
1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2021
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 49, Issue 1, Pages 38-48
ISSN:
1568-484
URL of article:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajss.2020.11.002
Summary:
This review covers 46 research studies from 2007 to 2019, which examine the inflow of asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong after the Vietnamese refugee influx in the early 2000s. By analysing existing research studies, the authors summarise three themes, namely refugee law, asylum policies,1 and lived experiences of refugees and asylum seekers, on refugee and asylum studies in contemporary Hong Kong. While further research is needed, scholars can examine the potential possibilities of the legal reform of statutory insufficiencies, the development trajectory of asylum policy instruments with a more appropriate framework, and the protection mechanism of refugees’ and asylum seekers’ children.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
Human Rights, Diasporas and Migration
Authored on: Wed, 12/28/2022 - 02:16
Authored by: agillianchu
From Folk Religion to Evangelical Christianity: A Case Study on the Process and Challenges of Retirement-age Chinese Males Converting from Folk Taoism to Evangelical Christianity in Hong Kong
By Ann Gillian Chu
Publication date:
1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2021
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Asian American Theological Forum, 8.2, 3-9
ISSN:
2374-8133
URL of article:
https://aatfweb.org/2021/12/09/from-folk-religion-to-evangelical-christianity-a…
Summary:
The Christian Church needs to be aware of how potential conversions to Christianity might affect individuals holistically. This case study illustrates two elderly Chinese citizens from Hong Kong who converted to evangelical Christianity from folk Taoism. Their conversion experience not only affected their spiritual lives, but also their social and familial lives. As a result, Christian churches in the majority world can consider providing contextualised versions of discipleship, fellowship, and prayer support to new Christian converts. Thus, there is no one way of conversion, and the evangelical Christian church in the majority world needs to be in a supporting position for converts from various backgrounds.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
Religion, Diasporas and Migration
Authored on: Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:02
Authored by: lukchihung
Accommodating Foreigners in a Littoral Borderland: The Lower Pearl River Delta during the Opium War
By Gary Chi-hung Luk
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Modern China, volume 48, issue 1, pp. 197-228
ISSN:
00977004
URL of article:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700420946678
Summary:
This article traces the Chinese accommodation of foreigners in the lower section of the Pearl River delta during the Opium War to the region’s social ecology in late imperial times. With a long tradition of living with foreign sojourners and their vessels, Chinese people in the delta congregated on an unprecedented scale at the outer anchorages within the present-day Hong Kong region in 1839–1841 to trade with Euro-American merchants and the British expedition. As mobile and violent provisioners and opium dealers, they flourished in the littoral borderland between the Qing and British empires. Their cross-shore ventures constituted an intensification of their prewar activities and an economic adaptive strategy in the competitive society of mid-Qing Guangdong. Centering on the socioeconomic lives of ordinary Chinese people, this article problematizes the usage of “Hanjian” and “collaboration” as nationalist and statist labels to summarize Chinese assistance to foreigners in times of external war in modern China.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
History
Authored on: Wed, 12/28/2022 - 20:00
Authored by: elainewtc
YouTube Vidding and Participatory Memories of Stephen Chow’s Stardom in South Korea
By Elaine Chung
Publication date:
1 Dec 2022 – 31 Jan 2023
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Archiv orientální
ISSN:
0044 8699
URL of article:
https://aror.orient.cas.cz/index.php/ArOr/article/view/445
Summary:
Stephen Chow is one of the most commercially and critically successful comedians in Hong Kong’s film history, but his popularity and legacy in other East Asian countries remains understudied. As the South Korean media nowadays still often mention him in their comedy discourse, this article seeks to shed light on Stephen Chow’s stardom, or more precisely, memories of his stardom in South Korea, which endured through the 1990s until the early 2000s. It analyses the YouTube channel B-rated Review, a highly active and popular Korean vidding community for Stephen Chow, on which amateur videos that remix and review his twentieth-century movies are published and discussed. Through the lens of participatory culture and participatory memory, this study examines the discursive strategies employed by the vid creator and commenters to collab- oratively define, translate, and interpret Chow’s sense of humor in the South Korean context. It discusses how they borrow the Korean neologism byeongmat as a foil to argue for the sociocultural relevance of Stephen Chow, and how they use his comedies as a device to evoke nostalgia for their lived experiences. This research, arguing that vidding is a participatory process of not only cultural production but also cultural memory making, demonstrates the active role of user-generated activities in (re)localizing international stardom across time. It seeks to contribute to the belatedly expanding body of literature on Stephen Chow from an intercultural, digital, and audience-centered perspective.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
Media
Authored on: Sat, 12/31/2022 - 09:18
Authored by: hhoselina
Borderscaping Hong Kong: Lo Ting and its Creative Agency
By Selina Ho Chui-fun
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Third Text, Vol 36, issue 5, p. 513-531
ISSN:
0952-8822
URL of article:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09528822.2022.2125195
Summary:
Lo Ting, a mythical half-human and half-fish figure, has been appropriated by local cultural workers since 1997. Based on the 1998 exhibition ‘Hong Kong Reincarnated: New Lo Ting Archaeological Find’ and the film Three Husbands (Fruit Chan, 2018), this article examines the creative agencies of Lo Ting from the perspective of ‘borderscaping’. The study affirms borderscaping as active signifying, discursive and affective practices that involve dynamic processes of adaptation, contestation or resistance in the subject-making of Hong Kong people. Set in two different contexts, post-1997 and post-2014, both productions have arguably sought a new form of becoming or belonging, and envisaged the Hong Kong/China border as something that can (or cannot) be crossed, interpreted and reinvented rather than passively inhabited. By offering new (geo)political-cultural imaginations, they have sought a new spatiality of politics, shifting from the rigid territorial spatialities of the nation-state to representing, negotiating and contesting the ‘where’ of the border.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
Art and Culture
Authored on: Sat, 12/31/2022 - 21:40
Authored by: leecheng
Exploring the low enrolment of music as a subject within Hong Kong senior secondary school education
By Lee Cheng
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
International Journal of Music Education
ISSN:
02557614, 1744795X
URL of article:
https://doi.org/10.1177/02557614221115882
Summary:
Although studying music at school can be an enriching and enjoyable experience, it is an unpopular choice for many Hong Kong senior secondary students. The purpose of this study was to examine the rationale behind the low enrolment of music as a Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) subject. A questionnaire was conducted among senior secondary school students (N = 121) studying music at the HKDSE level, collecting information about their learning experiences and their perceptions of the curriculum. The results provided evidence supporting the difficulties and struggles faced by the students, including degrees of familiarity with, and confidence about, subject matters of different musical cultures, which subjects were prioritised when it came to studying, and the amount of prior specialist knowledge needed as part of the decision-making process. Tensions were revealed between the driving forces behind curriculum change and the readiness of students to cope with these changes, along with perceptions of music as an elitist subject with low utilitarian value. Socio-cultural interventions, such as making music education more accessible for all, while simultaneously ensuring that stakeholders’ voices are heard as part of the decolonisation process, remain fundamental challenges facing the curriculum.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
Education
Authored on: Sun, 01/01/2023 - 00:03
Authored by: liangcmark
Politics and PTSD: The case of Hong Kong BN(O) visa arrivals in the UK
By Mark Chih-Wei Liang
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Anthropology Today, 38:5, 4-8
ISSN:
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12751
URL of article:
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8322.12751
Summary:
This article adopts an ethnographic perspective to present the mental health situation of arrivals from Hong Kong (HK) to the UK on the British National (Overseas) – BN(O) – visa. In the months after the 2019–2020 HK protests, Western and Chinese media announced the onset of a mental health crisis. I discuss the construction of this crisis in terms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and disaster mental health, which translate the role of trauma from the clinical sphere into a marker of a moral economy. I also argue that the UK and the People's Republic of China classify populations according to ontological structures of distress for political gain. In this way, they participate in ‘damage-centred’ research, which regards BN(O) visa holders in the UK as victims without agency and subject to global players. By taking an anthropological stance on the debates surrounding this nascent immigrant group, I assert that PTSD is always political and that mental health integrates itself into larger goals Hongkongers have regarding their future educational, housing and employment prospects in the UK.
Specialisation:
Humanities
Theme:
International Relations and Politics, Health and Medicine, Diasporas and Migration
Authored on: Sun, 01/01/2023 - 13:01
Authored by: johnmok01
VIOLENT REPRESSION, RELATIONAL POSITIONS, AND EMOTIONAL MECHANISMS IN HONG KONG’S ANTI-EXTRADITION MOVEMENT
By Chit Wai John MOK
Publication date:
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range:
Mobilization: An International Quarterly (2022) 27 (3): 297–317.
ISSN:
1086-671X
URL of article:
https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-27-3-297
Summary:
Emotions are essential for mobilization. In the face of violent repression, individual participants evaluate their relational positions in the interaction order within relation to other participants and compare their contributions. This evaluation leads to the arousal of emotions that help sustain mobilization. Using Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement as a case and based on thirty-two in-depth interviews of participants, this article proposes two emotional mechanisms of sustained mobilization. Through the guilt mechanism, interviewees believed that some others were making more contributions, and felt sorry for failing to do more. Interviewees mobilized by the mechanism of moral pleasure and solidarity, on the other hand, argued that participants contributed equally. They took part in the movement out of the desire to fulfill their moral obligations, and they felt good to be part of the movement. The key factor distinguishing the mechanisms was how participants evaluated their positions and contributions compared to other participants.
Specialisation:
Social Sciences
Theme:
Society, Other

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