The Imaginary of Asia and World Consciousness in 1970s Hong Kong

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

CHINA, HONG KONG, AND THE LONG 1970S: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Edited by Priscilla Roberts and Odd Arne Westad CONTENTS Preface Notes on Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction: China and the Long 1970s: The Great Transformation Priscilla Roberts This book explores the forces that impelled China, the world’s largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic and international stance during the long 1970s. Fourteen distinguished scholars investigate the special, perhaps crucial part that the territory of Hong Kong played in encouraging and midwifing China’s relationship with the non-Communist world. The Long 1970s were the years when China moved dramatically and decisively toward much closer relations with the non-Communist world. In the late 1970s, China also embarked on major economic reforms, designed to win it great power status by the early twenty-first centuries. The volume addresses the long-term implications of China’s choices for the outcome of the Cold War and in steering the global international outlook toward free-market capitalism. Decisions made in the 1970s are key to understanding the nature and policies of the Chinese state today and the worldview of current Chinese leaders. Chapter 1: Untrusting and Untrusted: Mao’s China at the Crossroads, 1969 Sergey Radchenko Chapter 2: Building China’s 1970s Green Revolution: Commune Responses to Population Growth, Decreasing Arable Land, and Capital Depreciation Joshua Eisenman Chapter 3: China and South Asia in the 1970s: Contrasting Trajectories Jon Wilson Chapter 4: Reimagining and Repositioning China in International Politics: The Role of Sports in China’s Long 1970s Xu Guoqi Chapter 5: From China’s “Barefoot Doctor” to Alma Ata: The Primary Health Care Movement in the Long 1970s Zhou Xun Chapter 6: China’s Economic Statecraft During the 1970s Shu Guang Zhang Chapter 7: The Roots of a Globalized Relationship: Western Knowledge of the Chinese Economy and US-China Relations in the Long 1970s Federico Pachetti Chapter 8: Sino-Australian Relations in the Long 1970s Nicholas Thomas Chapter 9: 1967 as the Turning Point in Hong Kong-British-PRC Relations Valeria Zanier and Roberto Peruzzi Chapter 10: Crisis or Opportunity? Britain, China, and the Decolonization of Hong Kong in the Long 1970s Chi-kwan Mark Chapter 11: “Bat lau dung laai”: Shifting Hong Kong Perspectives Towards the Vietnamese Boat People John D. Wong Chapter 12: Bringing the Chinese Back In: The Role of Quasi-Private Institutions in Britain and the United States Priscilla Roberts Conclusion: China and the Long 1970s as a Field of Research Odd Arne Westad

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Postcolonial Studies, 2010

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Portes: Revista mexicana de estudios sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico, 2018

The aim of this article is to analyse to what extent demands for democracy apropos of the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong are the result of postcolonial determinations. We suggest that this is part of social discourses founded on narratives of cultural difference, portraying a distinctive Hong Kong’s identity in contrast to Mainland China. Even though we recognise the influence of networked transnational movements in this movement, we establish that there is a postcolonial strategic essentialism guiding the demands for participatory democracy in Hong Kong. This article is organised in three sections. First, we present the Umbrella Revolution characteristics, organisation, and demands. In the second part, we introduce a theoretical analysis about the existence of a certain social imaginary emanated from the island’s post-colonial condition. In the third section, we elaborate about collective actions in the light of the New Social Movements theory. Finally, we conclude by highlightin...