MacPherson, Kerrie L, "The City and the State: Historical Reflections on Hong Kong's Identity in Transition, 1997 and Beyond" (1997)

Title : "The City and the State: Historical Reflections on Hong Kong's Identity in Transition, 1997 and Beyond"

Author(s) : MacPherson, Kerrie L

Year : 1997

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : political

Journal : Cities

Volume : 14

Number : 5

Start page : 279

End page : 286

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Offers a historical analysis of Hong Kong's urban municipal development under colonial rule & of the evolution of municipal governance in China before 1949. It is argued that both histories inform Hong Kong's present urban identity & serve as the context for post-1997 integration. Municipal schemes to establish local political identity in Hong Kong since the mid-19th century are reviewed, showing how they were routinely thwarted by the British citizens & suppressed Chinese character. Similar oppression is observed in the Chinese government's attempts to derail non-traditional municipal developments in the growing cities of Guangzhou & Shanghai during the revolutionary period, 1911-1949.