Sustainable community building in the face of state-led gentrification: the story of the Blue House cluster in Hong Kong

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 495-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mee Kam Ng
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
The Face

Toward Critical Patriotism: Student Resistance to Political Education in Hong Kong and China. By Gregory P. Fairbrother. [Hong Kong University Press, 2003. x+218 pp. £26.95. ISBN 962-209-622-0.]

2004 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 521-523
Author(s):  
Agnes S. Ku
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Weak Sense ◽  
Student Resistance ◽  
Hong Kong Students ◽  
The Face ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
Legitimacy Crisis

Fairbrother's Toward Critical Patriotism is a timely publication in the “Hong Kong Culture and Society” series: political squabbles and conflicts over the idea of patriotism in the context of the national security legislation in Hong Kong are inflamed following the spectacular mass demonstration by 500,000 people on 1 July 2003. As the author points out, patriotism and nationalism are relatively recent historical phenomena in China. In mainland China, Marxist-Leninism became the guiding ideology after 1949. Yet, from the early 1980s, in the face of a legitimacy crisis, the leadership shifted toward patriotism as a unifying and justificatory ideology while professing ultimate objectives in line with Marxist principles. In Hong Kong, civic education had been de-emphasized under the ideology of de-politicization by the colonial government until the handover in the 1990s. The book rejects the typical characterization of Hong Kong students as simply having a weak sense of patriotism and nationalism, and of mainland students as patriotic dupes under the state and presents a more nuanced analysis.

Rethinking police legitimacy in postcolonial Hong Kong: Paramilitary policing in protest management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Lawrence Ka-Ki
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
The Public ◽  
Protest Policing ◽  
Street Violence ◽  
The Face ◽  
One Country Two Systems ◽  
The One

Abstract This article addresses a frequently asked question regarding Hong Kong policing since the outbreak of prolonged civil unrest in June 2019: How can we understand the tactics adopted by the police in their attempts to de-escalate street violence, and why did the highly regarded police quickly lose its legitimacy among the public? This article argues that these phenomena can be explained by the abrupt change in the structural and policing context. This combined and interacted with the limitations of the ‘paramilitary policing model’ and public order legislation of Hong Kong adopted since the realignment of Beijing’s Hong Kong policy under the ‘One Country Two Systems’ principle in 2012. In the face of growing resistance to change this shift demystified the ‘professionalism’, ‘neutrality’, and ‘accountability’ that had continually been associated with the public’s perception of the Hong Kong Police since the 1970s. The protests pulled the police back to the escalated force in protest policing which in turn led to further declines in perceptions of police legitimacy across the population of the special administrative region. The findings also provide the platform for further conceptual debate on police legitimacy.

Evaluative prosodies in academic quality audit reports

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Ho
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Quality Audit ◽  
The Face ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Audit Reports ◽  
The University

This paper analyzes the discourse of academic quality audit reports by drawing upon Appraisal Theory (Martin & White 2005). It focuses on the evaluative prosodies in the discourse leading up to the three main components of the reports, namely commendations, affirmations, and recommendations. These reports are prepared by the audit panels formed by the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong upon the completion of academic quality audit visits to each of the city’s eight publicly-funded tertiary institutions. This paper argues that such evaluative prosodies, or the pattern of use of evaluative language, are strategically employed by the audit panels in an attempt to strike a balance between three needs: (1) to discharge their quality assurance responsibilities with their power vested by the Hong Kong Government through the University Grants Committee; (2) to maintain and/or reinforce a credible ethos for the panels themselves; and (3) to attend to the face wants of the institutions and the stakeholders concerned.

How Chinese psychiatrists see and manage stigmatisation of psychiatric patients: a qualitative study in Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Kai Sing Sun ◽  
Tai Pong Lam ◽  
Tak Lam Lo ◽  
Dan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
The Face ◽  
Mental Health Rehabilitation ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

BackgroundHealth professionals including psychiatrists were reported to have stigmatising opinions on psychiatric patients. Their views may be affected by clinical, social and cultural factors.ObjectiveThis study explored the views of Chinese psychiatrists on stigmatisation of psychiatric patients.MethodsFocus group discussions with psychiatrists were conducted in Hong Kong. Their views towards stigmatisation of psychiatric patients and strategies to reduce stigmatisation were discussed.FindingsThe psychiatrists perceived the clinical needs to classify the patients according to the diagnoses and they did not see it as stigmatisation. They believed that some mental illnesses are characterised with violence or deviance, and were not completely curable. Instead of trying to eliminate stigma, they managed in ways that took social expectations into consideration. They might offer a relative vague diagnostic label to save the ‘face’ of the patients and secure greater acceptance for the illness from the public. They tended to accept family members to make decisions on behalf of the patients. Reconciling public interest and patients’ autonomy, they encouraged stable psychotic patients to live in the community but agreed to institutionalise those patients with violent behaviours.ConclusionWhile the psychiatrists argued that the diagnosis was not a form of stigma, they were sensitive enough and framed responses to patients in ways to minimise stigma. They tended to believe that stigma was inevitable given the nature of some psychotic disorders. Disguising the stigma appeared to be the common approach to deal with stigma in a Chinese context.Clinical ImplicationsThe psychiatrists, especially those practicing in a Chinese context, may consider a wider perspective of community mental health rehabilitation which is not limited to social stability but also social life.

scholarly journals Impact of Gender, Family Factors and Exploratory Activities on Students’ Career and Educational Search Competencies in Shanghai and Hong Kong

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-115
Author(s):  
Esther Sui-Chu Ho ◽  
Kwok Wing Sum ◽  
Raymond Sin Kwok Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Pisa 2012 ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Business Sectors

Purpose This study examines the career and educational search competencies (CESC), a capability which may be necessary for a successful transition from high school to work or postsecondary education, of students from Shanghai and Hong Kong. Design/Approach/Methods The data for this study was taken from the Main Study of PISA 2012 in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Regression analysis was used to examine the relative impact of different forms of career and educational exploratory activities on students’ CESC. Findings Results showed a consistent pattern of socio-economic inequality in student's self-reported CESC in the two Chinese cities, which was largely mediated by the family capital or resources. Besides, career and educational exploratory activities initiated by schools, enterprises or the students themselves were found to have significant positive associations with CESC regardless of socioeconomic status. Originality/Value The paper provides empirical evidence for enhancing students’ career search capacity through engaging in career exploration in the face of structural barriers. In light of this, the roles of schools, business sectors, and governments in students’ capacity building are discussed.

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