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I Want to Be More Hong Kong Than a Hongkonger”: Language Ideologies and the Portrayal of Mainland Chinese in Hong Kong Film During the Transition
Volume 6 Issue 1 2020 “I Want to be More Hong Kong Than a Hongkonger”: Language Ideologies and the Portrayal of Mainland Chinese in Hong Kong Film During the Transition Charlene Peishan Chan [email protected] ISSN: 2057-1720 doi: 10.2218/ls.v6i1.2020.4398 This paper is available at: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lifespansstyles Hosted by The University of Edinburgh Journal Hosting Service: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/ “I Want to be More Hong Kong Than a Hongkonger”: Language Ideologies and the Portrayal of Mainland Chinese in Hong Kong Film During the Transition Charlene Peishan Chan The years leading up to the political handover of Hong Kong to Mainland China surfaced issues regarding national identification and intergroup relations. These issues manifested in Hong Kong films of the time in the form of film characters’ language ideologies. An analysis of six films reveals three themes: (1) the assumption of mutual intelligibility between Cantonese and Putonghua, (2) the importance of English towards one’s Hong Kong identity, and (3) the expectation that Mainland immigrants use Cantonese as their primary language of communication in Hong Kong. The recurrence of these findings indicates their prevalence amongst native Hongkongers, even in a post-handover context. 1 Introduction The handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997 marked the end of 155 years of British colonial rule. Within this socio-political landscape came questions of identification and intergroup relations, both amongst native Hongkongers and Mainland Chinese (Tong et al. 1999, Brewer 1999). These manifest in the attitudes and ideologies that native Hongkongers have towards the three most widely used languages in Hong Kong: Cantonese, English, and Putonghua (a standard variety of Mandarin promoted in Mainland China by the Government). -
China Innovation Investment Limited Update About False
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this announcement, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this announcement. CHINA INNOVATION INVESTMENT LIMITED 中國創新投資有限公司 (Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability) (Stock Code: 1217) UPDATE ABOUT FALSE NEWS REPORTS (9) Reference is made to the announcements (the “Announcements”) of China Innovation Investment Limited (the "Company") about the false news reports dated 24 November 2019, 25 November 2019, 5 December 2019, 12 December 2019, 17 December 2019, 27 December 2019,30 December 2019, 17 February 2020 and 27 February 2020. Unless otherwise defined, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Announcements. On 2 June 2020, the Company received a notice from executive Director Mr. Xiang Xin (“Mr. Xiang”) and the alternate director Ms. Kung Ching (“Ms. Kung”), in which Mr. Xiang and Ms. Kung (collectively the “Petitioners”) commissioned Taiwan lawyers to submit the third petition to the Taipei District Prosecutors Office (the “Prosecutor”) for lifting the departure restrictions on 1 June 2020, and are currently awaiting the review of the Prosecutor. In the opinion of the Petitioners, it is clear that the reasons and basis for restricting the Petitioners’ departure are unfounded since the case has been actively investigated by the Prosecutor for more than half a year. Not only has it reached the level of non- prosecution, but also the revocation of departure restrictions should be made. -
China to Keep Watch on TPP
Table for strangers Hainan helps visitors Memory protection Special police target tourism An app connects amateur chefs industry irregularities in Sanya with willing dining companions Database to be created on > CHINA, PAGE 4 > LIFE, PAGE 9 the Nanjing Massacre > p3 MONDAY, October 12, 2015 chinadailyusa.com $1 COMMERCE China to keep watch on TPP Such trade deals can disrupt non-signatories: offi cial By ZHONG NAN highly unlikely that the TPP would in Beijing lead to the creation of a trade bloc [email protected] that excludes China. “The economic development China will conduct comprehensive mode in China has already changed and systematic assessments of the from low-end product trade to ‘going fallout from the Trans-Pacifi c Part- global’ strategies like setting up or nership, a broad agreement between moving manufacturing facilities and 12 Pacifi c Rim countries, including to more direct investment in over- Japan and the United States, since it seas markets,” said Fan. believes that such deals have disrup- Besides the US, other signatories tive eff ects on non-signatory nations, to the TPP are Australia, Brunei, a top government offi cial said. Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mex- Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng ico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore said China is of the view that changes and Vietnam. in the global trade pattern should be China has to date signed bilateral decided by adjustments in the indus- and multilateral free trade agree- trial structure and through product ments with seven TPP members. competitiveness in global -
Hong Kong's Civil Disobedience Under China's Authoritarianism
Emory International Law Review Volume 35 Issue 1 2021 Hong Kong's Civil Disobedience Under China's Authoritarianism Shucheng Wang Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr Recommended Citation Shucheng Wang, Hong Kong's Civil Disobedience Under China's Authoritarianism, 35 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 21 (2021). Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr/vol35/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Emory Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Emory International Law Review by an authorized editor of Emory Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WANG_2.9.21 2/10/2021 1:03 PM HONG KONG’S CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE UNDER CHINA’S AUTHORITARIANISM Shucheng Wang∗ ABSTRACT Acts of civil disobedience have significantly impacted Hong Kong’s liberal constitutional order, existing as it does under China’s authoritarian governance. Existing theories of civil disobedience have primarily paid attention to the situations of liberal democracies but find it difficult to explain the unique case of the semi-democracy of Hong Kong. Based on a descriptive analysis of the practice of civil disobedience in Hong Kong, taking the Occupy Central Movement (OCM) of 2014 and the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement of 2019 as examples, this Article explores the extent to which and how civil disobedience can be justified in Hong Kong’s rule of law- based order under China’s authoritarian system, and further aims to develop a conditional theory of civil disobedience for Hong Kong that goes beyond traditional liberal accounts. -
Additional Materials to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Additional materials to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Australia-Hong Kong Link Victoria HongKongers Association (Australia) Inc. Perth-HK Students’ Anti-ELAB Concern Group Brisbane Internal Student Solidarity with Hong Kong Canberra Hong Kong Concern Adelaide – Stand with Hong Kong Once again, Australia Hong Kong Link would like to thank the committee for providing such a valuable opportunity for us to contribute to the inquiry and we thank the committee for working hard to consider this important piece of legislation during these challenging times. Here are some questions we have taken on notice and additional information that we have included in this additional submission. 1. What sort of threshold do you think would constitute human rights abuses? There has been a fair bit of outrage about the recent arrest of Martin Lee, Jimmy Lai and others in Hong Kong. Where would you suggest the line be drawn in terms of human rights abuses there that would trigger action under something like a global Magnitsky act? 2. Are there any Hong Kong Australian business people who receive benefit or who are benefited by their links to the Chinese Communist Party and mainland officials? And is there an understanding that, for their business interests to continue to be supported, they must remain silent about the erosion of democracy in Hong Kong? Further to that, does it go further, whereby these individuals actually contribute to the suppression of activists and/or the democracy movement in Hong Kong? If so, could those individuals be captured by potential Magnitsky style laws in Australia? 3. -
Dilpreet Sambali
Overcoming cultural shock through accepting a hybrid identity in Australia Dilpreet Sambali I still remember walking out of the airport, when the first gust of cool Australian breeze hit me. I gave out a sigh of relief as I thought about not having to breath Hong Kong’s muggy, humid air for six months. It felt surreal that I was finally here. Only three days before I was still worrying about whether I would receive my visa in time for the first week of the semester. I was oozing with excitement, thinking about the coming six months. I was eager and hopeful. I wanted to make lasting friendships, get out of my comfort zone and try new things. In the coming week, I joined every activity in the orientation week with the hope of meeting new people. While I didn’t mind being alone and traveling by myself, I didn’t want to leave Australia without making new friendships. I was also sure that I didn’t want to stick to other Hong Kong students which is why I didn’t try to find the other two exchange students from CUHK (something I regretted soon). However, I might have been too optimistic. Making friends wasn’t as easy as I had thought. I’m an awkwardly introverted person. I can barely even maintain eye contact while talking. Making friends and socializing certainly is not my strong suit. Being an “innate multicultural” doesn’t make it any easier. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Identity Crisis: the downside of growing up in a multi-cultural environment I am a third generation Punjabi born and raised in Hong Kong. -
PROFILING FUTURE CONSUMER in HONG KONG Dr
PROFILING FUTURE CONSUMER IN HONG KONG Dr. Sari Arho Havrén, Business Finland Foresight, Asia Pacific Photo: hongkongbusiness.hk Profiling Future Consumer in Hong Kong Millennials 20-29 Hong Kong age group consumers spend 11.8.% 24 h/week on Silver consumers Internet. Brands aged 60+ can potentially 25.3% reach 50% of the Hong Kong One out of three consumer market Hong Kong through product consumers shop placement in video online weekly. streaming Around 40% of platforms. consumers tend to shop on cross- Number of credit border websites. cards reaches over 250% of the total Hong Kong population of Hong consumers prefer Kong. global brands 1 Health Conscious Diner Hongkongers eat outside more than anywhere else in the world, and 2.6 times more than anywhere else in Asia. Overall, 26% of Hongkongers eat outside at least once a day. Hongkongers are also health-conscious when it comes to their food choices. In the age group between 50 and 64 year olds, 8/10 cite health and fitness as key priorities in their choices. These consumers purchase more e.g. organic breakfast cereal products, sugar-free juices, and nutritional supplements. This suggests that in the food and beverage, healthy food products, those promoting healthy diets, have future potential as this trend will be strengthening. Food in general is a major sales drive in health and wellness. People are proactively trying to prevent for instance chronic disease by their diet choices. They are concerned of chemical food additives and ingredients. Source: China Skinny, Nielsen Hong Kong, Euromonitor Organic food and reliability on the source of the food have become increasingly important. -
Election Portends Continued Tension
CHINA- TAIWAN RELATIONS ELECTION PORTENDS CONTINUED TENSION DAVID G. BROWN, JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES KYLE CHURCHMAN, JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES President Tsai Ing-wen triumphed over her populist Kuomintang (KMT) opponent Han Kuo-yu in Taiwan’s January 11, 2020 presidential election, garnering 57.1% of the vote to Han’s 38.6%. Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) also retained its majority in the Legislative Yuan (LY), albeit with the loss of some seats to the KMT and third parties. While there has been considerable attention to Beijing’s influence operations, the election illustrated Beijing’s limited ability to manipulate Taiwan elections. The outcome portends continued deadlock and tension in cross-strait relations in the coming months. Meanwhile, Taipei and Washington have strengthened ties by launching a series of bilateral and multilateral cooperative projects, intended in part to counter both Beijing’s influence operations and its continuing diplomatic, economic, and military pressures on Taiwan. This article is extracted from Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-Journal of Bilateral Relations in the Indo-Pacific, Vol. 21, No. 3, January 2020. Preferred citation: David G. Brown and Kyle Churchman, “China-Taiwan Relations: Election Portends Continued Tension,” Comparative Connections, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp 69-78. CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS | JANUARY 2020 69 Presidential Election Campaign used existing policies to demonstrate sympathy for Hong Kong by accepting fleeing Hong Kong Throughout the fall campaign, Tsai Ing-wen activists seeking temporary residence in Taiwan steadily improved her prospects for winning and welcoming students from disrupted Hong reelection in the January 11, 2020 presidential Kong universities. -
CBD Strategy and Action Plan
BIODIVERSITYCONSERVATIONACTIONPLAN 78 Priority Domestic Animal Species and Varieties (continued) Species Varieties Location Sheep Hu sheep Zhejiang Province Haixi Tibet sheep Qinghai Province Chicken Beijing You chicken Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences Xjaoshan chicken Zhejiang Province Xianju chicken Zbejiang Province Langshan chicken Jiangsu Province Chahua chicken Yunnan Province Gushi chicken Henan Province Duck Z-line of Peking duck Beijing Municipality Goose Shitou goose Guangdong Province Major Areas of Wild Species and Varieties of Crops Requiring Protection Wart-grained wild rice, Xima · Wild soybean, Longtan Lake · Amphicarpaea, Yaxian County, Township, Mengjiang County, area, Wube County, Anhui Hainan Province Yunnan Province Province · Huashan new wheat grass, Wart-grained, ordinary and ° Wild soybean, Xiongxian Huashan Mountain, Shaanxi medicinal wild rice, Yaxian County, Hebei Province Province County, Hainan Province · Wild soybean, Xinmiao · Wild primative Japanese Ordinary wild rice, Dongyuan Township, Yikezhao County, mulberry, wild shallot, Township, Dongxiang County, Inner Mongolia Yangtao, Shennongjia Moun- Jiangxi Province · Wild soybean, Guofu Town- tain, Hubei Province Ordinary wild rice, Hanguang ship, Keshan City, · Long spike mulberry, Xinshan Township, Yingde County, Heilongjiang Province District, Weifeng County, Guangdong Province · Wild soybean, Kenli County, Hubei Province Wild Dali tea and big tea tree, Shangdong Province ° Wild leek, Fubaoshan, Menghai County, Yunnan ° Amphicarpaea, (wild white -
Terminating Nuclear Power P.O
February 2020 | Vol. 50 | Issue 2 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN TAIPEI IN OF COMMERCE THE AMERICAN CHAMBER Terminating Nuclear Power 終止核電 TAIWAN BUSINESS TOPICS TAIWAN February 2020 | Vol. 50 | Issue 2 Vol. 2020 | February 中 華 郵 政 北 台 字 第 INDUSTRY FOCUS REAL ESTATE 5000 BACKGROUNDER 號 執 照 登 記 為 雜 誌 交 寄 PET INDUSTRY ISSUE SPONSOR Published by the American Chamber Of NT$150 NT$150Commerce In Taipei Read TOPICS Online at topics.amcham.com.tw 2_2019_Cover.indd 1 2020/1/29 下午10:26 CONTENTS NEWS AND VIEWS 6 President’s View The election is over. It’s time for a FEBRUARY 2020 VOLUME 50, NUMBER 2 fresh start. 一○九年二月號 By William Foreman 7 Editorial Publisher Taiwan Deserves Congratulations William Foreman 為台灣民主喝采 Editor-in-Chief Don Shapiro 8 Taiwan Briefs Deputy Editor Jeremy Olivier By Jeremy Olivier Art Director/ / 12 Issues Production Coordinator Katia Chen Reviewing the Recent Legislative Manager, Publications Sales & Marketing Term Caroline Lee 第九屆立法院會期回顧 Translation Kevin Chen, Yichun Chen By Eric P. Moon/Soundline Con- sulting American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei COVER SECTION 129 MinSheng East Road, Section 3, 7F, Suite 706, Taipei 10596, Taiwan Terminating Nuclear Power P.O. Box 17-277, Taipei, 10419 Taiwan Tel: 2718-8226 Fax: 2718-8182 終止核電 e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.amcham.com.tw 撰文/法提姆 By TIMOTHY FERRY 050 15 Nuclear Decommissioning 2718-8226 2718-8182 Stuck in Limbo Taiwan Business Topics is a publication of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, ROC. 核電廠除役進退兩難 Contents are independent of and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Officers, Board of Governors, Supervisors or members. -
3 Million Passports for Hong Kong Citizens Pre-Reading
Worksheet with reading comprehension by Dr Markus Bohnensteffen 3 million passports for Hong Kong citizens Read On • August 2020 • page 1 Page 1 of 7 Pre-reading 1. Describe the photo in less than 60 words. Photo: Picture Alliance 2. What do you associate with Hong Kong? Collect your ideas in a mind map. Hong Kong Compare your mind map with your partner’s and together find your three top ideas. Explain your choices. © 2020 Carl Ed. Schünemann KG. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Von dieser Vorlage ist die Vervielfältigung für den eigenen Unterrichtsgebrauch gestattet. 3 million passports for Hong Kong citizens Read On • August 2020 • page 1 Page 2 of 7 3. Find out what the word “sino” means: ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Have you ever heard of the “Sino-British Joint Declaration” for Hong Kong? If not, what could it be about? 5. A country has passed a new “security law”. What do you think that means? Reading comprehension 1. Find out what the article says about the new security law in Hong Kong. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Read the article -
Hongkongers Open Their Hearts and Wallets to Victims
8 Sichuan earthquake SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2008 SUNDAY MORNING POST Youngsters, musicians and shoppers give generously Second medical Hongkongers open their team will head to Chengdu ...................................................... hearts and wallets to victims Dr Liu visited a hospital in Deyang Loretta Fong and Cheung Chi-fai yesterday afternoon. in Chengdu The authority will keep in close ...................................................... A fresh contingent of 19 doctors and touch with the mainland authorities nurses from the Hospital Authority and may send more doctors and Zoe Mak and Joshua But will be sent to West China Hospital in medical staff to help if necessary. From politicians to rock stars and Chengdu today and tomorrow The Hospital Authority’s director children, yesterday was a day the to help those injured in the Sichuan of quality and safety, Leung Pak-yin, community opened its hearts – and earthquake. said psychologists would be sent on bank accounts – to the victims of the The Hospital Authority’s Liu Wednesday to provide counselling Sichuan earthquake. Shao-haei announced the mission at services to the quake victims, espe- Just about every corner and shop- the end of his tour of the mainland cially those in the children’s ping mall had a collector – more than yesterday. The chief manager for in- hospitals. 60 organisations have been granted fection, emergency and contingency Ho Pak-leung, a University of permits to collect donations. Political had travelled with a team to the Sich- Hong Kong microbiologist, and two parties such as the Civic Party, the uan provincial capital on Thursday to colleagues from the Hospital Author- Democratic Party and the Demo- assess the situation at the city’s hos- ity, will head to the mainland today to cratic Alliance for the Betterment and pital and work out what personnel meet Ministry of Health officials to Progress of Hong Kong put aside and supplies were needed.