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CHOI, Wing Yee Kimburley. "Remade in Hong Kong : how Hong Kong people use Hong Kong Disneyland." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2007. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/6.

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Recent studies of globalization provide contrasting views of the cultural and sociopolitical effects of such major corporations as Disney as they invest transnationally and circulate their offerings around the world. While some scholars emphasize the ubiquity of Disney’s products and its promotion of consumerism on a global scale, accompanied by cultural homogenization, faltering democracy, and diminishing state sovereignty, others highlight signs of contestation and resistance, questioning the various state-capitalist alliances presumed to hold in the encounter between a global company, a local state, and the people. The settlement process and the cultural import of Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong complicate these studies because of the evolving post-colonial situation that Disney encounters in Hong Kong. While Disney specializes in “imagineering” dreams, Hong Kong itself is messily imagining what “Hong Kong” is and should be, and how it should deal with others, including transnational companies and Mainlanders. In this thesis, I appropriate Doreen Massey’s ideas of space-time in order to examine Hong Kong Disneyland not as a self-enclosed park but as itself a multiplicity of spaces where dynamic social relations intersect in the wider context of post-colonial Hong Kong. I illuminate the shifting relationship between Disney, Mainlanders, and the locals as this relationship develops in its discursive, institutional, and everyday-life aspects. Through interviews and ethnographic research, I study how my respondents have established and interpreted the meanings of Hong Kong Disneyland, and how they have made use of the park to support their own constructions of place, of politics, and of identity.

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Tsang, Shun-fai, and 曾舜輝. "Border control in colonial Hong Kong, 1958-1962." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46428112.

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Ma, So Mui. "Post-colonial identities and art education in Hong Kong." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10007431/.

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This thesis is an inquiry into art educators and art curricula within the context of the reunification of Hong Kong and China. Theoretically it draws specifically on post-colonial theories. Additionally, issues of personal identities and aesthetic preferences were examined by means of questionnaires given to pre-service art teachers. The design of the instruments was inspired by 'border pedagogy' and 'critical theory', as outlined by Henry Giroux (Giroux, 2005: 24). Reflections on the research design were offered. The thesis seeks to uncover the impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on art education and on participants' perceptions of their own identities. This includes participants' reflections on cultural and gender stereotypes; their responses to conceptions associated with modernist, postmodernist and feminist art; and the impact of modernist progressive thought on their values towards contemporary and traditional life-styles. The impact of colonialism on art curricula in Hong Kong schools prior to 1997 was investigated through analysis of historic documents and archives. Perceptions of participants of their prior art training were also examined. An overview ofliterature related to Art and culture; post-colonial and identity theories were discussed at the outset. Literature related to the relevant data was analysed qualitatively to provide additional insights. The results suggest that post-colonial Hong Kong continues III the colonial condition with the persistence of Western influences on art education. With the shift to China, the subordination of Hong Kong identity remains, and established stereotypes were still evident amongst participants. However the growing influence of globalisation has increased the complexity of the hybrid, East-West Hong Kong identity. Implications and recommendations suggest ways forward for visual arts education in Hong Kong.

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Xian, Yan. "Christian Music as a Contact Zone for Chinese and Hong Kong Communities in Post-colonial Hong Kong." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1416315294.

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Kerrigan, Austin. "Policing a colony : the case of Hong Kong 1844-1899." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248159.

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Luk, Chi-hung, and 陸志鴻. "Collaboration and conflict: food provisioning in early colonial Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45986058.

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Robertson, Robert Philip. "Ghostwriting Hong Kong : post-colonial documentary and the western tradition /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20007450.

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Clark, Adam Scott. "Position of Putonghua in contemporary Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33060.

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Hong Kong's language policy has come under close scrutiny since the creation of the region as a colony of Great Britain in 1843. Throughout Hong Kong's time as a colony of Great Britain, and post-1997 as a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, language use and the policy that aims to dictate this use has told us a great deal about Hong Kong's hierarchy of socioeconomic power and the languages used by those in 'high' and 'low' positions on this hierarchy. Previous research into language policy in Hong Kong makes note of the ways in which the colonial and postcolonial governments have enacted policies aimed at directing the people of Hong Kong towards specific patterns of language use. Since the transfer of sovereignty in 1997, the role of Putonghua in contemporary Hong Kong has been an issue of debate, both within the public domain and within the Hong Kong Legislative Council. As the official language of the People's Republic of China, the role of Putonghua in contemporary Hong Kong requires closer analysis. Current policy places Putonghua within a linguistic trichotomy alongside English and Cantonese - the 'three languages' of Hong Kong. The ways in which Putonghua is treated in the Legislative Council, in the education system, and in the daily lives of Hong Kong's citizens requires further exploration. In order to explore the nature of the role of Putonghua in contemporary Hong Kong society, this thesis makes use of two complementary methodologies that explore the use of Putonghua in different domains. The first of these methodologies is rooted in the tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The second of these methodologies is based on corpus linguistic methods, through the creation of and subsequent analysis of a corpus of job advertisements, and an analysis of the position of Putonghua in these job adverts - its necessity or lack thereof. This thesis comprises four papers in total, three research papers and one review article, that collaboratively shed light on the status of Putonghua in contemporary Hong Kong.

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Ho, Chi-yeung, and 何智揚. "Housing, planning and political will in colonial Hong Kong, 1946-1983." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48079868.

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This thesis argues that an exercise of political will by the government was decisive to the course of public housing in colonial Hong Kong. Historians have seldom looked deeply into the local and international politics leading to the development of public housing. Not until recently did scholars start to challenge seriously the wellknown Shek Kip Mei fire of Christmas 1953 as the origin of public housing. This thesis contextualises housing history within broader political issues and challenges various historical events as watersheds in Hong Kong history, such as the Shek Kip Mei fire and the 1967 riots. The China factor greatly influenced both colonial rule and housing policies in Hong Kong by politicising the problems of refugees, squatters and indigenous people in the colony, as well as by triggering the British to link Hong Kong’s domestic policies with imperial concerns amidst the global wave of decolonisation. This thesis also shows how colonialism and laissez-faire capitalism interacted to make room for the real estate business by ensuring that public and private housing ran parallel. The act of political will by the government to choose between different housing solutions obscured the notion of public housing as social welfare over time. Offering insight into colonialism in Hong Kong, this thesis argues that the policy making of public housing was extremely complex because of imperial and colonial concerns, laissez-faire capitalism and the local people’s interest.
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Ho, Paul. "Designing Identity: Hong Kong Posters and the Colonial Divide, 1963-2003." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.523137.

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Linked intimately to social change, poster design had long featured in the cultural spaces of Hong Kong occupying key roles in various spheres of communication since the colony's early founding. As a key site of modernity, the graphic poster played a pivotal role in visually articulating the city's identity in the changing political and cultural landscape of the late colonial period. This thesis will assess the role and impact of poster design on historical and cultural contexts of modernisation in Hong Kong from the period 1963-2003, with specific focus on the design group the Kong Hong Kong Poster League (HKPL). It will trace the development of graphic design of the last four decades, with emphasis laid on the apparent neutrality of the East meets West cultural dialectic commonly used to describe the city and its cultural production. By spanning the 1997 colonial divide, this thesis traces the major discourse of Hong Kong design culture not only within a British colonial context, but also within a global one. In providing an analysis of poster design in Hong Kong, this work provides an insight into how design circumscribed cultural discourse in the challenge to predominant colonial narratives, and how the city's position as a hub within various local and global networks has led to the emergence of a complex contemporary design culture that is distinctly postmodern

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Yeung, Chi Wai. "Urban redevelopment in late colonial Hong Kong : a socio-political analysis." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319958.

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The importance of land to the economy of Hong Kong lies in the fact that land sales are a major source of revenue to the colonial state. A continuous supply of land for private property development is essential for the survival of the colony's capitalist economy. If, for whatever reason, the supply of land is blocked, the developers, the state and the economy of Hong Kong as a whole will suffer. The failure of the market to release land in the old urban areas for redevelopment has forced the Hong Kong State to step in. The attempts, however, have been largely unsuccessful due mainly to the difficulties in land acquisition and the strong resistance from the affected residents. In 1987 the state established the Land Development Corporation [LDC] to intervene in the urban redevelopment process. The author argues that the LDC is basically a socio-political strategy serving the function of political legitimation for state intervention. The LDC can be regarded as a piece of state apparatus for providing the necessary means of intervention in the urban redevelopment process in order to ensure the release of land to private developers for profit making redevelopment projects (capital accumulation). At the same time it serves as a buffer to distance the state from being in direct conflict with the affected communities in the urban redevelopment process. However, if the conflict is a structural one inherent in the capitalist logic of development, the conflict will eventually be directed back to the state. The LDC will simply add one more layer to the administrative procedure in the redevelopment process. By conducting empirical studies on four of the LDC's redevelopment schemes during the period 1988-1992, with particular focus on the interactions between the affected communities and the LDC/the state, the author examines the role of the LDC so as to demystify the social reality of urban redevelopment in Hong Kong.

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Chung, Wing Yu. "Hong Kong adult learners' attitudes toward Putonghua in post-colonial times." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2006. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/730.

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Nicolson, Kenneth N. "Cemetery gardens the historical cultural landscape of Hong Kong's colonial cemetery /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31475747.

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Chow, Vivienne Manchi, and 周敏芝. "Chinese elitism and neoliberalism: post-colonial Hong Kong cultural policy development : a case study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50559096.

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Chinese elitism and neoliberalism were the fundamental mechanisms that governed and shaped Hong Kong during the British colonial rule. These mechanisms, however, remains not only active 15 years after the handover of Hong Kong to People's Republic of China in 1997 – their domination has been heightened, particularly in the domain of the city's cultural policy making. This dissertation examines the key issues concerning the development of Hong Kong's post-colonial cultural policy under the frameworks of a renewed Chinese elitism and neoliberalism, to find out what kind of cultural policy does Hong Kong need and what cultural future is lying ahead of Hong Kong.
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Chiu, Patricia Pok-kwan. "Girls' education in colonial Hong Kong (1841-1941) : gender, politics and experience." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252143.

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Drawing from archival documentary sources and oral history of women who were schoolgirls in the pre-war years, this thesis examines the history of girls’ education in pre-war colonial Hong Kong from four perspectives: the educational landscape of girls’ education characterized by difference of missions, ideals, teaching medium and urban development; the ideals of femininity and domesticity embedded in the colonial education policies, missionary initiatives and Chinese social practices; the politics underlying the establishment and growth of girls’ schools; and schooling experience of women growing up in the 1920s to 1940s. I shall argue in the thesis that from the evangelical vision of European missionaries, the civilising mission of colonial officials and philanthropists, to the nationalist appeal of Chinese intellectuals and gentry reformers, girls’ education had been a site around which shifting ideals of femininity were constructed, regulated and contested. By placing women and girls – missionary teachers, Eurasian orphans, middle and upper class schoolgirls, the unschooled servant girls, the university students – as the focus of inquiry and the agent of narrative, this thesis involves more than appending hidden accounts of girls and women to extant narratives. It critically confronts the politics of existing histories, calls for new discussions on the multi-faceted politics of colonial education and the role of schooling in constructing masculinities and femininities in colonial Hong Kong.

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Tsang, Chiu-long Carol, and 曾昭朗. "Out of the dark: women's medicine and women'sdiseases in colonial Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46287620.

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Lau, Wing-kai Anthony, and 劉永佳. "Banquets and Bouquets: social and legal marriage in colonial Hong Kong 1841-1994." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31214307.

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Leung, Chi Yuen. "Everyday life resistance in a post-colonial global city : a study of two illegal hawker agglomerations in Hong Kong /." View abstract or full-text, 2008. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202008%20LEUNG.

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Lee, Shuk-man, and 李淑敏. "From cold war politics to moral regulation : film censorship in colonial Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197504.

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Through the case of film censorship in Hong Kong from the late 1940s to the 1970s, this thesis explores the local impact of the international Cold War. It argues that Cold War politics shaped the nature of local policy. The first chapter investigates the reasons for the rise of film censorship in the late 1940s and the 1950s. It argues that three levels of Cold War tensions led the Hong Kong government to focus on political censorship. Tensions within the British Empire, between the Hong Kong government and foreign governments, and those between local communists and the Hong Kong government led censors to target communist films, foreign governments’ official films, and films echoing local political events. Among these films, those from China remained the primary target. During the period of political censorship, the Hong Kong government ignored the needs of local viewers and focused on reacting to external forces. The second chapter examines how in the 1960s local communists launched two campaigns against the suppression of Chinese films. It argues that the campaigns in 1965 and 1967 showed the influence of the Cold War, as these communists threatened the Hong Kong government that continued suppression of Chinese films would worsen Sino--‐‑British relations. It explains why the 1965 campaign succeeded in forcing the government to adjust its policy towards Chinese films but the one in 1967 did not. Since the late 1960s, Cold War tensions had been easing, particularly between China and Britain. The importance of political censorship and the external aspects of film censorship in Hong Kong started to diminish. Setting the stage for the localisation of film censorship in the 1970s, Chapter Three explores another duty of film censors in the 1960s, to examine sex and violence. By studying the debates about film classification and the censorship of the local film Death Valley (Duanhungu 斷魂⾕谷), this chapter argues that the government did not understand the goals of moral censorship even after examining films for more than twenty years. And it still did not sincerely engage with the Chinese population. The final chapter, on the 1970s, shows how the easing Cold War tensions directed the Hong Kong government to focus on moral censorship of films that was in accordance with the other social policies such as fighting prostitution and violent crime. Localisation of film censorship was followed by comprehensive reforms. The 1970s witnessed the government’s first serious attempt to engage the Chinese public in censoring films.
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Lau, Wing-kai Anthony. "Banquets and Bouquets : social and legal marriage in colonial Hong Kong 1841-1994 /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18565360.

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Au, Yong Tan-fung, and 歐陽丹鳳. "The changing roles of English in two key public sectors in post-colonial Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B26777885.

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陳永恆 and Wing-hang Henry Chan. "Education and colonial mentality: a study of the post-war baby-boom generation in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3122572X.

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Wang, Meng. "Living in the Limelight: Space and Everyday Life of Childhood in Hong Kong, 1921-1941." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24506.

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This dissertation examines the everyday life of children in interwar Hong Kong by looking at five trans-colonial movements and their context-specific development. These are: (i) the garden city movement as it engendered a new residential architecture and supervised play space for middle-class Chinese children in suburban districts; (ii) the imperial hygiene movement as it shaped school architecture and curriculum that educated a multi-racial middle-class cohort; (iii) the nationalist movement and public debate regarding higher education as this related to the professional pursuits of Chinese girls from elite families; (iv) women’s movement led by the Young Women’s Christian Association as it reconfigured patterns of social and public engagement of professional and industrial Chinese girls; and (v) the Girl Guide movement as it imagined a new cultural public space for middle-class and working-class schoolgirls residing in both urban and rural situs. These five movements cut across the domestic, school, social, and public life of Chinese children, and engaged the colonial state, private enterprises, missionaries, Chinese elites, European women, voluntary associations, and the simultaneous involvement of children. Assessed together, using Lefebvre (1991) and De Certeau (1984)’s influential theorisation on space and everyday life, these dimensions show how the everyday spaces of childhood in colonial Hong Kong engaged with British colonial class, gender, and racial imperatives in the interwar period. The layered private and public experience of children are interrogated through a collective reading of oral histories, diaries, newspapers, school publications, visual sources, and government reports.

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Sin, Lai-ting Jophy. "Narrative of the city memories of ex-colonial cities, Havana, Shanghai and Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31953840.

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Sin, Lai-ting Jophy, and 冼麗婷. "Narrative of the city: memories of ex-colonial cities, Havana, Shanghai and Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953840.

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Chan, Ho-yung Dennis, and 陳可勇. "The Institutional control and care of young people in colonial Hong Kong 1932-1997: a social history." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31244002.

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羅婉嫻. "西方醫學與殖民管治 : 以二次世界大戰前香港和新加坡為比較個案 = Western medicine and colonial rule : pre-WWII Hong Kong and Singapore as comparative cases." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/796.

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TAM, Wing Sze. "Public space and British colonial power : the transformation of Hong Kong Statue Square, 1890s-1970s." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2014. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/his_etd/5.

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This thesis analyzes the relationship between public space and government legitimacy through the emergence and transformation of Hong Kong Statue Square. It explains the colonial government’s construction of Statue Square in 1896 as a symbolic place to establish her legitimacy and present her imperial power. The construction of Statue Square also shows the mutually beneficial relationship between the colonial government and the foreign merchants in Hong Kong, especially Sir Catchick Paul Chater, who put great effort into the Praya Reclamation Scheme that made the establishment of Statue Square possible. By demonstrating their loyalty to the Crown through the construction of Statue Square and the erection of royal statues, they acquired economic profits and political power in return. The thesis will also examine the changes in the spatial configuration and functions of Statue Square. Statue Square served as a significant ritual space in colonial Hong Kong. A variety of royal celebration rituals and the commemoration of Remembrance Day were carried out by the colonial government in the square and in front of the Cenotaph erected in 1923. Commoners were rarely invited to participate in these rituals. During Japanese Occupation period, Statue Square was almost devastated by Japanese troops. The Hong Kong government decided not to restore Statue Square in late 1946. It was converted into a car park in the 1950s and to an open public garden in 1964. Statue Square was no longer a symbol of royal legitimacy; it was changed from a royal ritual space into a public space. Many unofficial events were held in the square for public entertainment since the 1960s. Statue Square therefore is an important site for understanding the processes of colonization and decolonization of an urban landscape. It provides an important lens through which we can explore the changing nature of the administration of Hong Kong during the colonial period.

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Sum, Ngai-ling Ivin. "The changing nature of colonial-bureaucratic authoritarianism in Hong Kong and its implications for public policies." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31976086.

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Sum, Ngai-ling Ivin, and 岑艾玲. "The changing nature of colonial-bureaucratic authoritarianism in Hong Kong and its implications for public policies." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31976086.

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Morris, Richard William Tavener. "Celebrating Queen Victoria in the colonial city : the Diamond Jubilee in Hong Kong and Cape Town." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40776.

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The 1897 Diamond Jubilee was a truly global celebration, breaking out across the wide expanses of the British Empire in a near simultaneous fashion. Yet these local events were not identical across the world. Using the local coverage of the celebrations that took place in Hong Kong and Cape Town, two of the empire’s most rapidly growing and significant port cities, this thesis uses the comparative method of analysis to uncover the nuances, similarities and discrepancies within them. This approach allows light to shine away from the focus of the festivities – Queen Victoria – and to be brought to bear more directly onto the locations and celebrants themselves. This thesis considers the socio-political and economic background to the events and examines whether these issues had any bearing on how the celebrations were performed and received. It also seeks to examine the subject of empire loyalty within these two cities, and the extent to which genuine levels of affection held towards the queen could be found. Whilst it is apparent that the celebrations were largely well-attended, and general levels of public engagement with the event appeared to be high, the arguments of this thesis take issue with the facile verdict, voiced by colonial institutions at the time, that active participation and attendance at the event was proof enough of its popularity. Instead, this work considers the different motivations that may have lay behind attendance at the festivities and also considers the various representations of Britishness that were also projected during the celebrations. In the final chapter, the Diamond Jubilee is considered in relation to the histories and identities of the two cities in which these celebrations took place.

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Cheng, Andrea Kyna Chiu-wai. "The blame game : how colonial legacies in Hong Kong shape street vendor and public space policies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73700.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-127).
Hong Kong has seen several social movements emerge since 2003 that have focused on saving quotidian public spaces, such as traditional shopping streets and markets, from redevelopment. This thesis explores how the most important form of public space in Hong Kong, streets and sidewalks, has been shaped by the regulatory framework for street vendors and markets, which in turn bears the imprint of Hong Kong's colonial heritage. I seek to identify contradictions between the ways society currently uses space and the original intent of the regulations, and establish if these can explain current frictions over public space expressed as protests. In turn, I also argue that locating the contradictions helps to identify alternative approaches to mediating conflicting claims on space, which thus far have been analyzed through a "right to the city" perspective. This paper utilizes informal economy analysis and studies of colonial urbanism as additional lenses through which to interpret past policy choices. A case study applies this approach to analyze government responses to the deaths of nine people in fatal fire in a tenement building on Fa Yuen Street, which plays host to a lively street market in Mongkok, a bustling lower--income district in the heart of Hong Kong. Narratives about the causes of the fire assign blame to the street vendors rather than building owners whose renovations left fire escapes blocked and inaccessible. This narrative fits a pattern of associating vendors with public health or safety risks. While this characterization is common world--wide, in Hong Kong it is exacerbated by its colonial legacy of combining laissez--faire governance and paternalism. The dialectic between laissez--faire and paternalism can be recognized as playing a role shaping street vendor policies.
by Andrea Kyna Chiu-wai Cheng.
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Ng, Kai Hon. "Political context, policy networks and policy change : case studies of Hong Kong during the colonial transition." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419589.

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YAU, Lai To Herman. "The progression of political censorship : Hong Kong cinema from colonial rule to Chinese-style socialist hegemony." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2015. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/24.

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Censorship is an important cultural regulatory instrument for the government of a society, or even a state. In certain socio-political settings, it can become a powerful administrative appartus (dispositif) and technique (techne) designed to render society governable. Censorship decisions often embody hegemonic views on social and political issues. No matter how virtuous the original intent maybe, the practice of censorship is inevitably geared to the social tensions surrounding issues of human rights and political dissent. The theory behind film censorship may once have been benign but banning or cutting a movie always involves an unnatural set of procedures and actions. This study examines this problem in the context of socio-political changes in Hong Kong. It is an enquiry into the evolution of political film censoship in its more conventional form to its full-fledged integration into other institutions and policies under today's 'on country, two systems' policy. It also analyses the discourse surrounding the changes in film censorship practices from the days of early cinema to Hong Kong in the 21st century. By contextualizing Hong Kong cinema from a historical and political perspective, the study of the Hong Kong experience aims to shed light on censorship's socio-political meanings for, and effects on, filmmakers and film production.

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Lau, Hon-bong Rex, and 劉漢邦. "Colonial garden: a sense of history, a sense of place." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985233.

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Ng, Kwok-keung Zachary, and 吳國強. "The construction of colonial subjectivity in the Chinese language and literature lessons in Hong Kong secondary schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951168.

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Tang, Wing-yu Mary, and 鄧詠瑜. "Language policies, national development and the role of English in post-colonial Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952355.

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Tang, Wing-yu Mary. "Language policies, national development and the role of English in post-colonial Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2116177X.

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Ng, Kwok-keung Zachary. "The construction of colonial subjectivity in the Chinese language and literature lessons in Hong Kong secondary schools." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1739076X.

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So, Kam-tong Bernie, and 蘇錦棠. "The Hong Kong police as a new paradigm of policing in a post colonial city: an analysis of reform achievement." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31966019.

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Li, Joanne Siu Chung. "The impact of colonialism on the design of the Chinese language curriculum in Hong Kong secondary schools : a historical survey." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1994. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/22.

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Leung, Shi Chi. "Race and the racial other: Race, affect and representation in Hong Kong television." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/150.

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This cultural research explores the relation between racial representation and emotions/affects as part of the struggle for racial minorities’ visibility. It is informed by conjunctural theory in cultural studies, with the use of textual narrative and affective analysis. It focuses on Hong Kong’s television culture as a site for context configuration, or conjuncture, for constructing the inter- and intra-ethnic relations between the dominant ethnic Chinese and ethnic minorities (EMs), via the production of emotions. Chapter One introduces a conjunctural understanding of the construction of EMs in Hong Kong through revisiting some of the most prominent theoretical works that explore the transformation of Hong Kong identity, in order to point out an underlying Hong Kong-Chineseness as a cultural center, and to argue that the demand of the present conjuncture is to respond to the necessity of generating an alternative “EM-context” suitable for reimagining Hong Kong identity. Chapter Two attempts to map out this “EM-context” by reviewing the major popular non-Chinese figures on TV, namely Louie Castro, Gregory Rivers (known as “Ho Kwok-wing”) and Gill Mohinderpaul Singh (known as “QBoBo”) in order to study how their particular cultural visibility can open up ways to rethink the problems surrounding visibility. The narrative affective approach to study racial relations is applied to the reading of No Good Either Way (TVB) in Chapter Three and Rooms To Let (RTHK) in Chapter Four. Together, these two core chapters explore the affective configuration of “anxieties” and “shame” in the two TV programmes. It is suggested that these affective landscapes help position EMs as either a “sweetened trouble-maker” (in the work place) or “assimilating neighbor” (in the domestic sphere), both of which fall short of being able to construct a new context/conjuncture for understanding the cultural presence of EMs. This research rejects the study of race/ethnicity through content analysis of stereotype, and opts for an approach that reads affects and narratives in the search not for representational visibility, but for what is termed “conjunctural visibility.” Ultimately, Chapter Five concludes with a discussion of the dynamics of “soft” and “hard” representations of the ethnic other: the former in the mode of “sugarcoated racism” which involves the figure of EM as the sweetened troublemaker appealing for audience’s sympathy, and the latter in the form of public pedagogy aimed at educating the audience (through shaming) to treat their EM neighbor as the assimilated other. This research study aims at making a small contribution to the understanding of the struggle for conjunctural visibility among EMs in Hong Kong.

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Fong, Ho-nam. "A comparison of the colonial medical systems in British Hong Kong (1841-1914) and German Qingdao(1897-1914)." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35051073.

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Green, Christopher Frank. "Communication in the professional workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong : the roles and statuses of Chinese and English." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30971.

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This study reports the findings of an investigation into the roles of English, standard written Chinese and Cantonese in the workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong. The study was motivated by the paucity of large-scale, broad-spectrum research into language use in workplace communication in Hong Kong. Previous studies, while helpful and suggestive, have tended either to focus on language use within a single profession, or are small-scale in scope. The findings of this study derive from a questionnaire survey of 3,019 subjects employed in both the public and private sectors and by Hong Kong-owned and foreign-owned organisations. Subjects mostly held junior rank within their employing organisations and were drawn from large, medium-sized and small employing concerns within the five broad professional fields of Business Services, Community and Social Services, Construction and Real Estate, Engineering, and Manufacturing. A multi-method approach to data collection was adopted to achieve triangulation: the quantitative survey data were analysed statistically and are interpreted partly by reference to qualitative data elicited from a focus group interview with participating subjects and five individual case study subjects who kept a written record of their language use over a single typical working week. Results indicate that English continues to function as the unmarked language option for internal and external written communication in both the public and private sectors of the local economy. Chinese professionals who work for foreign-owned organisations in Hong Kong make greater use of English in written communication than do their counterparts in Hong Kong-owned companies. Professionals who work for large Hong Kong concerns manifest a slightly greater need to read or write in English than those who work for small local companies. In terms of spoken communication, Cantonese emerges clearly as the unmarked language option for intra-ethnic communication in informal situations.

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Fong, Ho-nam, and 方浩楠. "A comparison of the colonial medical systems in British Hong Kong (1841-1914) and German Qingdao(1897-1914)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35051073.

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Ham, Daniel. "The management of malaria and leprosy in Hong Kong and the International Settlement of Shanghai, 1880s-1940s." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/246451.

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This dissertation contrasts Hong Kong’s and the International Settlement’s management of malaria and of leprosy from the 1880s through the 1940s. This dissertation has two main objectives. Firstly it examines the historical management of malaria and leprosy within specific geo-political contexts. By focusing on British possessions in coastal China, this project explores the production of colonial medical knowledge within a transnational context, presents new and original analyses of the local history of the disease, and bridges the historiography of the British Empire and that of modern China. Secondly this dissertation contrasts Hong Kong’s and the International Settlement’s management of each of these two diseases. By focusing specifically on these two British possessions in coastal China, this project provides insights into the Imperial conceptualisation and management of Chinese bodies and Chinese environments, sheds light on broader historiographical debates regarding the role of colonial medicine, and complicates modern debates about the nature of colonialism in China.

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Zhang, Bennan. "Language attitudes of secondary school students towards English, Cantonese and Putonghua in the context of post-colonial Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8334.

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Tam, Tsz Wai Edith, and 譚子慧. "A comparative on the contributions of missionaries to the formative years of colonial education in Hong Kong and Macau." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950863.

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Tam, Tsz Wai Edith. "A comparative on the contributions of missionaries to the formative years of colonial education in Hong Kong and Macau." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14042186.

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廖麗暉 and Lai-fai Liu. "Chinese temple and Chinese community in colonial Hong Kong : a case study of Man Mo Temple in Sheung Wan = Hua ren miao yu yu zhi min di de Xianggang Hua ren she hui : yi Shanghuan Wen wu miao wei yan jiu ge an." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192998.

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The Man Mo Temple（文武廟）Compound on Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, which comprises three blocks, namely Man Mo Temple, Lit Shing Kung （列聖宮） and Kung Sor（公所）, were built in 1847 . The Temple was built mainly for the worship of Man Cheong (God of Literature, 文昌) and Mo Tai (God of Martial Arts, 武帝). It was important assembly hall where Chinese people discussed issues and resolved disputes in early colonial period. The Temple represented the traditional social organization and religious practices of the Chinese community in the past. The aim of this study examines the development of Man Mon Temple from 1840s to 1908. This thesis contains six main chapters. The first chapter is literature review of previous researches for Man Mo Temple, as well as presents the objectives and methodology of the thesis. The second chapter explores the reasons for its establishment. The third chapter describes the development of architecture of temple. The forth chapter describes and analyses the Guandi worship （關帝信仰）and Wenchang belief （文昌信仰）in Hong Kong. The fifth chapter evaluates the significance of Man Mo Temple on different periods. The temple provided religious service, also as sponsor the charitable work of the Chinese community. It analyses the change of the temple’s function in colonial period. The final chapter is a conclusion how the Man Mo Temple shift to accommodate changing needs of the colonial development.
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