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When the Hong Kong Dream Meets the Anti-Mainlandisation Discourse: Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong

Xu, Cora Lingling

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Dr Cora Xu lingling.xu@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article looks at identity constructions of mainland Chinese undergraduate students in a Hong Kong university. These students shared a “Hong Kong Dream” characterised by a desire for change in individual outlooks, a yearning for international exposure, and rich imaginations about Hong Kong and beyond. However, when their Hong Kong Dream met Hong Kong’s “anti-mainlandisation discourse,” as was partially, yet acutely, reflected in the recent Occupy Central movement, most students constructed the simultaneous identities of a “free” self that was spatially mobile and ideologically unconfined and an “elite” self that was among the winners of global competition. This article argues that the identity constructions of these mainland Chinese students shed light on global student mobilisation and provide a unique, insider’s perspective into the integration process between Hong Kong and the rest of the People’s Republic of China.

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Xu, C. L. (2015). When the Hong Kong Dream Meets the Anti-Mainlandisation Discourse: Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong. Journal of current Chinese affairs, 44(3), 5-47

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 9, 2015
Online Publication Date Oct 1, 2015
Publication Date 2015
Deposit Date Aug 26, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Print ISSN 1868-1026
Publisher German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 44
Issue 3
Pages 5-47
Publisher URL https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/879/886.html
Related Public URLs https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2187/

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