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“You have to fight on your own”: Self-alienation and the new Hong Kong nationalism

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posted on 2023-07-26, 15:13 authored by Luke Cooper
This chapter argues that the profile and growing support for the new Hong Kong nationalists has emerged organically out of the polity’s geopolitical circumstances. The polity’s new localist-nationalists exhibit high levels of self-alienation and their rise reflects the complex power relations between Hong Kong and Mainland China. Activists from Civic Passion argue that Hong Kong, and to a certain extent Taiwan, are the only successors of traditional Chinese culture or tradition. Hong Kong’s distinctiveness vis-a-vis other territories on the “borderlands” of Chinese nationhood lies in the sheer length of time it was under European colonial control. The coloniality that forms the central component of Hong Kong’s relationship to modernity provides a series of historical reference points and experiences, which problematise its relationship to the imagined community of China. For Benedict Anderson China was the consummate example of the limited bounds so essential to the national community.

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  • Yes

Volume

178

Page range

94-113

Number of pages

188

Series

Routledge Contemporary China Series

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

London, UK

Title of book

Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong: Localism after the Umbrella Movement

ISBN

9781138632950

Editors

Wai-man Lam, Luke Cooper

Language

  • other

Legacy posted date

2021-01-27

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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