Dissertations / Theses: 'Hong Kong identity'

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Chan, Ka-ming, and 陳嘉銘. "Social identity in postcolonial Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30409238.

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Chan, Ka-ming. "Social identity in postcolonial Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B23234477.

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Chan, Ka-hing Alexander. "Hong Kong teacher identity perceived and intended /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3530554X.

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Chan, Ka-hing Alexander, and 陳家鑫. "Hong Kong teacher identity: perceived and intended." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3530554X.

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Lee, Vicky, and 李美琪. "Hong Kong eurasian memoirs: identity and voices." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31243289.

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Lee, Vicky. "Hong Kong eurasian memoirs : identity and voices /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B23595929.

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Tong, Clement Tsz Ming. "The Hong Kong week of 1967 and the emergence of the modern Hong Kong identity." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5525.

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The birth of the modern Hong Kong identity has long been attributed to the events following the 1967 Riot. This thesis affirms the current understanding that a renewed sense of self-awareness and identity was experienced by the people of Hong Kong as a direct result of the riots. However, the thesis argues against the general scholarly consent that this identity was at its inception a cultural identity, but proposes that this Hong Kong awareness began as a political identity, advocated by the elites of the Hong Kong society and subsequently accepted by its majority. The cultural dimensions of the Hong Kong identity would take another decade to evolve. The thesis also compares the cases of Hong Kong and Singapore, and argues that both underwent processes of identification that were in many ways similar.

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Lai, Suet-fun Betsy, and 賴雪芬. "Nanbei (south-north) comedies in Hong Kong cinema : transregional film industry and Hong Kong identity." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/208079.

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In this paper, I attempt to use the concept of “transregional imagination” by Zhang Yingjin to depict the Hong Kong film industry in the early 60s and examine how it has transformed the industry practices in Hong Kong cinema and shaped the Hong Kong identity. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has been of regional and transregional importance. The influx of film artists from the north, especially Shanghai, during the post-war period brought a cosmopolitan outlook to the industry. This was coupled with the investment of overseas Chinese from Singapore which helped to expand the distribution network of Hong Kong films within a short time. By tracing the historical development of the industry, I wish to revisit the major events in the region which have contributed to the uniqueness of Hong Kong culture. I would also like to illustrate the characteristics of the transregionalism through the study of a trilogy of nanbei (literally, south and north) comedies released in the early 60s by the MP&GI company. They are The Greatest Civil War on Earth (Nanbei He, 1961); The Greatest Wedding on Earth (Nanbei Yi Jia Qin, 1962) and The Greatest Love Affair on Earth (Nanbei Xi Xian Feng, 1964) which depict the conflicts between the Mandarin-speaking “Northerners” (mainly from Shanghai and neighbouring cities) and Cantonese-speaking “Southerners”. The transregional imagination is manifested in these films which have the benefit of funding from overseas Chinese, casting from Shanghai and local artists, screenwriters from USA, production team mainly from the north, distribution network across regions and audience from international markets. I would further examine the comedy genre as a common language among diversified cultures and a discussion of modernity through an analysis of the company’s business strategies and the scenes which depict western values and urban images of Hong Kong during the 60s. I hope the analysis will be able to rediscover the transregional advantages that Hong Kong film industry has enjoyed and which, I believe, have also paved the way for its positioning in the era of globalization.
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Literary and Cultural Studies
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Master of Arts

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Yu, Ngai Ying. "Identity politics of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1458.

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Lo, Pui-Lam. "Ethnic Identity Changes Among Hong Kong Chinese Americans." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4599.

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During the last ten years, the number of Hong Kong Chinese migrating to the U.S. has increased. These new immigrants, with knowledge and life experiences shaped by the urban metropolis of Hong Kong, have begun to influence different aspects of Chinese communities in U.S. cities. A study of this group of Hong Kong Chinese provides a better understanding of how they have adapted to their new environment and how they have come to recognize themselves as Hong Kong Chinese Americans. In reviewing the available literature, very few studies have dealt with the identity changes of this group of people. Hence, the focus of this research was to discuss, specifically, 1) the components that constituted Hong Kong Chinese American identity and how they have changed; and 2) to illustrate the application of practice theory and the concept of habitus to the explanation of the formation of a sense of commonality among Hong Kong Chinese Americans. Twenty-eight Hong Kong Chinese who came to the U.S. in the last twenty-five years were selected and agreed to participate in a formal interview. According to the data collected from the informants and observations made on different occasions where Chinese were present, it became obvious that Hong Kong Cantonese language is the most unique component constituting a Hong Kong Chinese identity. Although nine other cultural traits discussed were not unique markers of this identity, these traits reflected changes among Hong Kong Chinese immigrants. Some of the traits endured the drastic changes of the socioeconomic and political situation in the U.S. and surfaced as major traits for them, while some other components lost their significance after the Hong Kong Chinese moved to the U.S. Practice theory and the concept of habitus helps to illustrate the identity labeled by the Hong Kong Chinese immigrants as "Hong Kong Chinese" as rooted in a sense of commonality among themselves. Such a sense is developed from the shared experience they had in Hong Kong and in the U.S.

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Wong, Catherine Yuen Wing. "Representing Hong Kong in a Borrowed Tongue The Cultural Identity Crisis in Anglophone Hong Kong Literature." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502240.

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A.L. McLeod's comment on the literature of Hong Kong, a former Commonwealth colony of Britain, represents the consensus that Hong Kong has 'produced no literature'. Also pertinent is his view that Hong Kong has 'no sense of national identity, no cause to follow, no common goal'. The Handover in 1997 represented a new era for Hong Kong as it came under a new sovereign with a new identity. It is now time to rethink the relevance of McLeod's assertion, made some four decades ago. Hong Kong has long been regarded as a 'cultural desert', which is not a favorable environment to create any impetus to cultivate development in culture and arts. However, following reunification with China, Hong Kong is now permeated by a Chinese national identity that is less ambiguous and more legitimate than its former colonial counterpart. Decolonisation has, without a shadow of doubt, provided all Hongkongers with a 'common goal' to anticipate, inducing them to question whether recent history has given Hong Kong a new identity; and, whether there are incentives for claiming it. However, the key question is whether present day Hong Kong has given inspiration and 'calligraphic ink' for Hong Kong literature; in particular, how Hong Kong's new identity has been reflected in literary works. This research relates postcolonial thinking to literature emanating from Hong Kong, its thrust is to dissect and explore the implicit meanings evident in the use of the English language by native Hong Kong writers as they expound the identity of Hong Kong. Does Anglophone writing in these instances express the identity of Hong Kong? Addressing the writings of Hong Kong native Xu Xi (writer of Hong Kong Rose), Agnes Lam (Woman to Woman and Other Poems) and Louise Ho (New Ends, Old Beginnings), the research also considers how such adaptations result collaterally in cultural displacements, diasporic experience and a linguistic identity crisis, which leads to the .consideration of whether a uniquely Hong Kong cultural identity may be said to emerge ex post facto from the postcolonial situation, or whether a hybrid identity existed prior to the political upheaval of 1997. The earlier part of the thesis focuses on the investigation of subjects' nostalgic feelings towards their past. Chapter one provides a general overview of the political situation of Hong Kong that gave rise to a special cultural phenomenon which this thesis examines: the special nostalgia in Hong Kong's memory is due to its unique political situation. It discusses the presentation and the perspective on time taken by the three writers. Identifying Xu Xi as idealistic, Agnes Lam as individualistic and Louise Ho as skeptical, this thesis further consider how these different writers deal with the postcolonial experiences of their time in the perception and construction oftheir identity. One of the major focuses of this thesis is the notion of a postcolonial time sense, that is, the perplexing competition between the time and memory of the coloniser and that of the colonised. The focus of this research then turns to language. Pursuing the idea that language creates a voice and an identity, this thesis considers how these three writers deal with the various languages current in Hong Kong and their opinion on languages which empower and disempower them. The capacity of language to marginalise is one of the focuses of discussion. The study of marginal identity will be revisited in the last chapter and the angle will change to bring into view the marginality that is brought about by space. Another primary area of analysis in this thesis is postcolonial geography. Following on from the discussion of nostalgia, the analysis of this feeling of inertia will extend from time to space and in an examination of the significance of 'homeland' in these postcolonial works. In its conclusion, the thesis explores the procedures which these writers have adopted in constructing a postcolonial identity for Hong Kong by examining their dealings with the displacement brought by migration, colonisation and globalisation, together with the attempted transcendence of physical distance and psychological boundaries.

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Chen, Siu-ling Eve. "Constructing gender in Hong Kong kindergartens." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36224066.

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Cheung, Hor-wan Annemarie. "Perceived gender differences in nursing in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31972883.

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Morigiwa, Yasutomo, and 康友森際. "Sovereignty, Law, and National Identity : The Hong Kong Handover." 名古屋大学大学院法学研究科, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/7409.

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Leung, Yvonne Yee Man. "Identity formation(s) of mainland immigrants in Hong Kong /." View abstract or full-text, 2007. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202007%20LEUNGY.

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Kim, Jeanna P. "Hong Kong Nostalgia Cinema: Loss, Memory, and Identity Crisis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/259.

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This paper observes Hong Kong nostalgia cinema. After the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed, a tendency of anxiety loomed among the society of Hong Kong. People started to feel nostalgic toward their past and concerned their uncertain future. From the late 80s to mid 90s, nostalgia films were produced as a trend, reflecting Hong Kong's identity crisis of its ambiguous entity and fear of reuniting with its Communist motherland. Based on Hong Kong's historical and cultural backgrounds, my thesis examines the nature of nostalgia through Stanley Kwan's Rouge (1988) and the impact of nostalgia by contrasting John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986) and Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild (1990).

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郭賢偉 and Yin-wai Joseph Kwok. "The construction of gender identity in Hong Kong cinema." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30257384.

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Kok, Yuen-han, and 郭婉嫻. "Negotiating Hong Kong identity in the post-80s generation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211118.

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Hong Kong identity has always been a complicated subject due to its colonial past and ongoing integration with China. Recently, the escalated social and cultural contentions between a group frequently called the Post-80s and the Mainland Chinese have reiterated the identity crisis in Hong Kong. The Post-80s, generally referring to people who were born after 1980, are believed to have grown up in a different social context from their previous generations. Having encountered the political transition from the British to the Chinese in their critical period, this generation has exposed to a renationalised discourse after the handover. With the national framework provided by the government and some of the media, it shall be expected that the Post-80s would be less resistant, if not uncritical, to the Chinese regime. Yet, the active involvement of some of the Post-80s activists in recent anti-China movements seemed to suggest another story. While studies and book publications have extensively covered the view of the Post-80s social activists, an in-depth understanding of how the ordinary Post-80s perceive their local and national identification is missing. It is, therefore, the purpose of this study to capture their perception, valorisation and daily enactment of Hong Kong and Chinese identity. Adhering closely to the social constructivist perspective, the thesis depicted both the features and identity negotiation process of the ordinary Post-80s based on data collected from 17 semi-structured interviews. Findings of the research revolve around 3 analytical levels, namely 1) nominal, 2) meaning making and 3) everyday encounter. This helps to classify the heterogeneous responses from the Post-80s into four types. Based on their subjective perceptions, attitudes and rationale towards Hong Kong and China, their identifications can be divided into antagonistic, partial inclusive, active inclusive and indifferent. For individuals in the antagonistic group, concrete examples of cultural difference found between Hong Kong and China form a strong basis for their physical and psychological disassociation from the nation. Although some of the Post-80s interviewees identify themselves nominally as both Hongkonger and Chinese, they do not share the same rationale. Some consider themselves as Chinese due to undeniable historical and cultural ties to the nation while the others actively embrace the concept of “One China” without detaching from the political and cultural controversies found in contemporary China. In addition, small amount of the interviewees deny the importance of using Hong Kong and China identification to define themselves as a person. This, however, does not imply a general lack of attention or views to information and incidences related to Hong Kong-China relationship. Through a detail depiction of the formation and transformation process of the ordinary Post-80s, it is found that the role played by former prominent social agents, for example, education and traditional media, in shaping people’s identification is no longer straight forward. Although the research, with limited sampling size, does not stand in an appropriate position to suggest any correlation between social agents and one’s identity, there are traces showing more complicated negotiations undergone by the Post-80s, which is worth to be explored in-depth in future studies.
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Master of Philosophy

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Zhang, Mengmeng. "Constructing Hong Kong identity : political contestations and press mediations." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7656.

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This research investigates the discursive construction of Hong Kong identity in mediated political communication, in order to understand the relationship between media discourse and the political economy of the media in Hong Kong, as well as the political and economic context in Hong Kong, and thereby reveal the dynamic of the involvement of the media in the politics of Hong Kong identity. It is argued that the Hong Kong identity has changed substantially over the past few decades, and that these changes have been shaped by broader political changes, economic developments and cultural shifts, all of which have been filtered through the Hong Kong media system. To demonstrate this, the thesis employs a novel combination of textual and contextual analysis, drawing on analytical techniques and concepts from corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, the political economy of the media, and sociological theories of identity. To be able to assess the relative role of the media system factors and the broader contextual elements in shaping the mediated representations of Hong Kong, the research encompasses two case studies, one focusing on the media coverage of the 2004 interpretation of the Basic Law regarding universal suffrage, the other on the coverage of the Chief Executive Election in 2005. The analysis reveals that the mediated construction of Hong Kong identity is closely related to the political economy of individual newspapers the newspaper type, its readership, ownership, political affiliation and commercial orientation. The comparison between the two case studies also shows that the media representations of identity are also inflected by the characteristics of the broader society of Hong Kong, its politics and economy at the chosen points of time. The results of the study contribute to a better understanding of Hong Kong, its identity, political culture, and its media system. These results also suggest that the analytical approach used, based on a parallel examination of the political economy of the media and the discursive constructions of identity in the media, has a lot to offer and could be fruitfully applied to other cases around the world.

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Castillo, Gilbert Gerard. "Gender, Identity, and Influence: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3354/.

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This project is an examination of the Hong Kong film industry, focusing on the years leading up to the handover of Hong Kong to communist China. The influence of classical Chinese culture on gender representation in martial arts films is examined in order to formulate an understanding of how these films use gender issues to negotiate a sense of cultural identity in the face of unprecedented political change. In particular, the films of Hong Kong action stars Michelle Yeoh and Brigitte Lin are studied within a feminist and cultural studies framework for indications of identity formation through the highlighting of gender issues.

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Kwok, Yin-wai Joseph. "The construction of gender identity in Hong Kong cinema /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?

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Leung, Pui-man Helen, and 梁佩文. "Impact of virtual community on identity formation of adolescents." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31256387.

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Chiu, Ka-yun Denise, and 趙家欣. "Representation and identity in Xixi's novels." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29918881.

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Challen, Georgina Margaret. "Hong Kong's own airline: Cathay Pacific advertising and the representation of a Hong Kong identity." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46701242.

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Shek, Mabel. "Professional identity of school counsellors in Hong Kong primary schools." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.686614.

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Listening to a school counsellor's story of how she decided to leave the profession stimulated the author to embark on a process of narrative inquiry in order to understand the experience of school counsellors in a changing educational landscape. The research investigates how experienced primary school counsellors in Hong Kong have constructed and reconstructed their professional identities within this historical, social and cultural context. It aims to engender critical discussion of the complexities of educational reform and the influence of embedded Chinese cultural values on the development of professional identity and interaction with other professionals. The similar but unique stories of four participants, collected from individual narrative interviews and a reflecting team process (RTP), are re-presented within different themes to show how a common context emerges. This study found that the participants went through a cyclical process with four stages: conceptualisation, internalisation, clarification and renewal to develop their professional identity. The embedded Chinese values of harmony, superior-subordinate relationship and high power distance affected the participants' self-defined professional role, perception of professional autonomy and decision and practice in the educational reform context. In addition, the author scrutinises her own assumptions and beliefs and intertwines her reflective stories to add a voice that makes the journey of this research more transparent to the reader. In doing so she invites readers to recall and reflect on their own experiences, as resonated by the text, to form a polyphony of voices. In concluding this study, the author reflects on her journey through narrative inquiry, the trajectory of professional identity development and the contextual influences on this process. This increased understanding has enhanced her awareness of her own assumptions and beliefs, and contributed to changes in her pedagogical approach to the counselling training programme. This journey offers a space for methodological development of narrative inquiry in the local context as well as significant insights into the implementation of educational reform and the deliberation of how culture and counselling may interact in future research.

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Leung, Ka-bo Corrina. "Hong Kong heroin users acquiring and managing the deviant identity /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/b40203724.

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Jim, Alice Ming Wai 1970. "Urban metaphors in Hong Kong media art : reimagining place identity." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84516.

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This dissertation examines representations of the city and media art in Hong Kong from the late 1980s to the present to establish a link between the ways in which the city's place identity is re-imag(in)ed. Charting the course of media art in Hong Kong in relation to the parallel development of contemporary art in the region, it provides critical analyses of dominant urban metaphors that play a significant role, both locally and internationally, in the current representation of Hong Kong and its artistic practices. Specifically, the study explores how media artists have been dealing with four central urban metaphors that frequently arise in discussions of Hong Kong in relation to its place identity: City in Transition, Panoramic City, Compact City, and Mobile City. The hypothesis of this essay concerns the ways in which both the selected media artists and their works negotiate central urban metaphors in their search for Hong Kong's place identity. I designate each of these negotiations as a 'spatial portrait': a space of representation in which social experiences and relations are reconstructed and investigated. Through the critical analysis of these spatial portraits, I consider the development, shifts and imbrications of urban metaphors for Hong Kong and their contributions to, as well as their limitations for, understandings of artistic representations of urban space. Recognizing the local-global nexus from which these works emerge through considerations of the imaging of Hong Kong in the media and tourism industries, I propose an interpretation of the metaphor of the Mobile City as an updated version of the City of Transition. Ultimately, this dissertation offers an understanding of urban metaphors in Hong Kong media art in relation to the re-imag(in)ing of place identity situated between globalization discourse and the cultural politics of urban space, location and representation. It concludes that contemporary art's contribution to t

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Siu, Heng. "The representation of Hong Kong identity in Fruit Chan's films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29949105.

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Leung, Ka-bo Corrina, and 梁家寶. "Hong Kong heroin users: acquiring and managing the deviant identity." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40203724.

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Chan, Bik-ling, and 陳碧凌. "A study of vocational identity of Hong Kong secondary students." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50179184.

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This research adopted the social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and the career developmental approach (e.g., Super’s life-space approach) to investigate vocational identity of secondary school students in Hong Kong. The purposes of current research were mainly (1) to examine vocational identity of Hong Kong senior secondary students; (2) to develop a model of vocational identity to outline the relationships of achievement-related motivational factors (i.e., self-efficacy, goal orientation and causal attribution) to vocational identity, and the mediating relationship of hope to vocational identity, for senior secondary school students in Hong Kong; and (3) to explore students’ perceptions of personal and contextual factors to career development. The current research was carried out in three stages, using a mixed quantitative and qualitative research design. Prior to the main study, a pilot study was conducted to a small group of participants (N=143) to test the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. Study One was the main study to examine the hypothesized model of vocational identity. A total of 1,866 students randomly selected from 11 secondary schools completed the questionnaire. The findings supported the proposed model of vocational identity which identified personal control, performance goal orientation, learning goal orientation, self-efficacy as significant predictors of hope, which in turn significantly predicted the outcome of vocational identity. The findings also supported the role of hope as a mediator. Study Two was a qualitative study aiming to explore the participants’ perceptions of the factors identified in Study One, and of the contextual factors which influenced their vocational identity development. Focus group interviews were conducted to the participants (N=23) who completed the questionnaire in Study One. The qualitative findings revealed that appreciations and supports from family, school, peers, graduates and society were significant for adolescents’ vocational identity development. The findings of the current research were discussed in light of theoretical and practical contributions. At the theoretical level, it developed a model of vocational identity highlighting the contributions of personal factors such as self-efficacy, personal control, learning goal orientation, performance goal orientation and hope to adolescents’ career development. At the practical level, the findings pointed to the need of developing a comprehensive student guidance program which integrated personal developmental guidance with career guidance. Such program needs to focus on developing students’ achievement-related motivation and hope. Further, a favorable school learning environment and supports of family, peers and society are salient to secondary students’ career development. The strengths and limitations of the current research and direction for further research were also discussed.
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Chan, Shelby Kar-yan. "Homeless at home : identity and theatre translation in Hong Kong." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/13595/.

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Vezy, de Beaufort Lorraine. "Learning French in Hong Kong : narrative perspectives on identity construction." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LORR0055/document.

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Cette recherche doctorale examine le lien entre l’apprentissage d’une langue et la construction identitaire à travers l’expérience d’apprentissage du français de quatre hongkongaises. L’étude adopte la perspective post-structuraliste de l’identité (Norton, 2000; Bucholtz & Hall, 2005). Selon cette perspective, l’apprentissage d’une langue est considéré sous l’angle d’un procédé de construction identitaire qui reflète « le désir des apprenants d’étendre la gamme de leurs identités et d’accéder à des environnements plus larges » (Pavlenko & Norton, 2007, 670). En utilisant une méthodologie de type « narrative inquiry » (Clandinin & Connelly 2000) que l’on pourrait qualifier d’« étude de récits de vie par enquêtes approfondies », l’étude met en lumière l’expérience individuelle ainsi que les différents aspects de l’apprentissage de langues à l’ère de la « superdiversité » (Vertovec, 2007). A partir d’un corpus composé en partie d’entretiens approfondis et de « language learner histories » (Mercer, 2013), cette étude a pour but d’illustrer que même les langues « minoritaires » (tel que le français à Hong Kong) ont un rôle à jouer en terme de construction identitaire. Les quatre participantes ont toutes appris le français dans un cadre institutionnel mais elles ont aussi développé leur intérêt pour cette langue au cours de leur expérience professionnelle ainsi qu’en voyageant voyages ou au cours de leurs activités en ligne. L’étude montre le côté unique et personnel de l’expérience d’apprentissage de langues et met en avant différents aspects de cette expérience et sa signification en terme de construction identitaire en faisant valoir que ces aspects sont souvent négligés en didactique des langues. Ce qui ressort de cette étude est que, premièrement, apprendre une langue « minoritaire » joue un rôle important dans la construction indentitaire en dépit d’un niveau de maîtrise linguistique qui, conventionnellement, serait jugé limitée. Deuxièmement, l’étude montre que le développement de la connaissance interculturelle incite à réfléchir à son environnement culturel, ce qui agit sur l’identité. En conclusion, l’étude souligne le besoin de prendre en compte la « diversité ou multidimensionalité » des apprenants de langues dans les dispositifs d’apprentissage de langues (voir Byrd Clark, 2010) ainsi que le phénomène de de-territorialisation des langues à l’ère de la superdiversité (Jacquemet, 2005). Les notions pédagogiques de ce qu’est et représente une langue doivent être également être repensées et réfléter la créativité et la diversité des pratiques langagières des personnes multilingues, ce qui amène aussi à repenser la notion de compétence en langues. L’étude offre donc des pistes méthodologiques, théoriques et pédagogiques
This doctoral research examines the relationship between language learning and identity construction, focusing on four Hong Kong adults and their experiences of learning French. The study adopts a poststructuralist perspective on identity (Norton, 2000; Bucholtz & Hall, 2005). From this perspective, language learning is a process of identity construction which reflects ‘the desire of learners to expand their range of identities and to reach out to wider worlds’ (Pavlenko & Norton, 2007, 670). Using a narrative methodology known as ‘narrative inquiry’ (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000), the study highlights the personal experiences of learners and illustrates various aspects of language learning in the age of ‘superdiversity’ (Vertovec, 2007). Using data gathered from a range of sources including in-depth interviews and language learner histories, this inquiry aims to illustrate how even ‘minor’ languages (such as French in Hong Kong) can be significant in terms of identity. The four participants investigated in this study have all studied French in formal settings, but their engagement with French has also developed through workplace and travel experiences, as well as through online interaction. The study was able to highlight the unique and personal experiences of learners and illustrates various aspects of language learning and their significance for learner identity, aspects that are often overlooked from a conventional language didactic perspective. Two major findings are that, firstly, learning ‘minor’ languages can play a significant role in learner identities despite limited levels of conventional proficiency. Secondly, the process of language learning is revealed as being one of growing intercultural awareness, an awareness that is brought to bear upon the learner’s own cultural environment and also has relevance for identity. The study concludes by highlighting the need to acknowledge the ‘diversity or multidimensionality’ of language learners in curriculum and language classrooms (e.g. Byrd Clark, 2010) as well as an increased de-territorialisation of language under conditions of superdiversity (Jacquemet, 2005). Also, pedagogical notions of language and languages need to be reconceptualised to reflect the creative, diverse and complex language repertoires of language of multilingual learners and speakers, which means rethinking the notion of language competence. The study thus offers orientations for methodology, theory and pedagogy

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Chiang, Pui-yee, and 蔣佩儀. "The role of civic education in strengthening civic identity among HongKong adolescents." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B27724074.

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Ho, Petula Sik-ying. "Politicising identity : decriminalisation of homosexuality and the emergence of gay identity in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Essex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337837.

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Leung, Ping-yan Francis, and 梁秉恩. "Education and the myth of national identity." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B27668332.

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Cheung, Hor-wan Annemarie, and 張可耘. "Perceived gender differences in nursing in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31972883.

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Yau, Hoi-yan, and 丘凱恩. "Middle class identity in Hong Kong: a qualitative study in the post-SARS period." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37229898.

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Chan, Wai-ki Kenneth, and 陳偉基. "Divorce and children identity: how the process of divorce affects children's identity." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3125083X.

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Cheung, Wai Yee Ruby. "Hong Kong cinema 1982-2002 : the quest for identity during transition." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/516.

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Kwok, Ka-ki, and 郭珈琪. "Mormon women's identity: the experiences of Hong Kong Chinese Mormon women." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48394749.

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From a group of six people in 1830 to a worldwide congregation of about fourteen million members in 2012, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church in public and in media coverage, has grown from an insignificant religious group from New York to a globally recognized and organized religious group. The Church��s congregation consists of people from different gender, class, racial, ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds. With this diversity among its members, the Church has to find ways to cope with multiple challenges. Among all of the challenges facing Church leaders and members, one of the most prevalent topics of debate throughout the years concerns the status of Mormon women. Many of these debates run in tandem with issues associated with the various waves of feminist movements in the West. Mormon women have been seen as being oppressed by the patriarchal church organization. Many feminists, including feminists of Mormon faith, challenged such oppression and fought for their rights including the right to hold the priesthood and equal position in the Church organization. However, these voices are, for the most part, limited to Caucasian Mormon women. Through analysis of interviews with Hong Kong Chinese Mormon women, this study recognizes previously unheard or marginalized voices that shed light on new aspects of these debates.
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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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Law, Suk Fan. "Developing kingdom identity within a Hong Kong immigrant church in Vancouver." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1565.

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Chen, Siu-ling Eve, and 陳少玲. "Constructing gender in Hong Kong kindergartens." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36848931.

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Lam, Chuen-ping, and 林傳芃. "Sexuality in formation of lesbian identity: an exploratory study in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31250488.

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Sharma, Seetal. "Globalisation and postcolonial identity." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262348.

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Larsson, Jessika. "Hong Kong in Transition : The Hong Kong identity and value change in relation to the pro-democracy protests of 2003-2020." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-432441.

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The importance of protecting democracy and free speech in the world has never been moreparamount than in a time like now, when pro-democracy and independence movements areon the rise and democracy is declining. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the potentialstrengthening of the local identity in Hong Kong in relation to the 21st centurypro-democratic protests and the postmaterialist generation. This will be put in contrast toChina’s more totalitarian way of governing and resistance to democracy. Of which the globalcity of Hong Kong has been a special administrative region (SAR) within the one countrytwo systems design since the 1997. The investigation of the local identity is based on theWorld Value Survey's data set from 2005, 2014 and 2018. The survey data is analysed withstatistical tools of regression analysis, correlation and comparison over time. This study findssome correlation between the postmaterialist values and identity but no correlation betweenthe Hong Kong local identity and the pro-democracy movement. The results further suggest amoderate strengthening of the Hong Kong identity in the form of an increase in inherentpride, which this thesis contends may be induced by the clash of the values imposed bymainland China. This possibility requires further research as the identity of an autonomouspart of a nation, for example Hong Kong, is of importance for civic participation anddemocracy as a whole.

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Lam, Ka-wai, and 林嘉慧. "Clubhouse facilities in private residential development: an actual demand or a symbol of identity." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4500934X.

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Ho, Kit-mui Juanita, and 何潔梅. "Stories of marriage migration: identity negotiation of Chinese immigrant women in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35715984.

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Wong, Wailing. "Making home three generations of Chinese immigrant women in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40987954.

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Yeung, Lai Shan. "Gender inequality and marriage formation in Hong Kong, 1981-2006 /." View abstract or full-text, 2008. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202008%20YEUNG.

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