Lost in China? Law, Culture and Identity in Post-1997 Hong Kong PDF
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LOST IN CHINA? RuleoflawisacoreHongKongvalue,providingadefensivewallaroundtheterritory andprotectingitswayoflifeagainst‘mainlandisation’.Beforethe1997retrocessionto China,fearswerewidespreadthattherightsandfreedomsenjoyedundercolonialrule wouldbeeroded,thattheruleoflawwouldbeweakenedandthatcorruptionwould increase.Soon,thefirstblowswerestruckagainsttheruleoflawviaaNPCSCruling thatoverturnedthejudgementoftheCourtofFinalAppeal.Successiveinterventions byBeijinginHongKong’slegalandpoliticalaffairshavegivenrisetofearsaboutthe lossoftheruleoflawandlossofidentity.Thesefearshavesubsequentlyprovokedmass streetdemonstrations,includingthe‘UmbrellaRevolution’of2014.But,asthisbook shows,Hongkongersalsouselessexplicitartsofresistancetomaintaintheiridentity. carol a. g. jones taught at universities in Hong Kong from 1990 to 2002 and remainsinvolvedacademicallythere.Shehaswrittenextensivelyabouttheroleoflaw inHongKong’shistoryandsociety,andshehasaparticularinterestinhowideasabout the law have shaped and been shaped by Hong Kong’s colonial and postcolonial development. cambridge studies in law and society Cambridge studies in law and society aims to publish the best scholarly work on legal discourse and practice in its social and institutional contexts, combining theoreticalinsightsandempiricalresearch. Thefieldsthatitcoversare:studiesoflawinaction;thesociologyoflaw;the anthropologyoflaw;culturalstudiesoflaw,includingtheroleoflegaldiscourses insocialformations;lawandeconomics;lawandpolitics;andstudiesofgovern- ance.Thebooksconsiderallformsoflegaldiscourseacrosssocieties,ratherthan beinglimitedtolawyers’discoursesalone. Theserieseditorscomefromarangeofdisciplines:academiclaw;socio-legal studies;sociology;andanthropology.Allhavebeenactivelyinvolvedinteach- ingandwritingaboutlawincontext. Serieseditors ChrisArupMonashUniversity,Victoria SallyEngleMerryNewYorkUniversity SusanSilbeyMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology Alistofbooksintheseriescanbefoundatthebackofthisbook. LOST IN CHINA? Law, Culture and Identity in Post-1997 Hong Kong CAROL A. G. JONES UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107093379 ©CarolA.G.Jones2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Jones,CarolA.G.,author. LostinChina?:law,cultureandsocietyinpost-1997HongKong/CarolJones. pages cm.–(Cambridgestudiesinlawandsociety) ISBN978-1-107-09337-9(Hardback) 1. Law–Socialaspects–China–HongKong. 2. Law–China–HongKong–Chineseinfluences. 3. HongKong(China)–Politicsandgovernment–1997- 4. HongKong(China)–Civilization. I. Title. KNQ9306.J662015 951.2506–dc3 2014042961 ISBN978–1–107-09337-9Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Inmemoryof Robert Staunton (1936–2009) CONTENTS Acknowledgements page viii List of abbreviations ix 1 Introduction: the lie of the land 1 2 Walls of law 41 3 Transitional fears and fantasies 68 4 Danger, death and disappearance 93 5 The disappearance of Yu Man-hon 114 6 Patrolling the walls of law 141 7 The law wars: wayward children and the right of abode 150 8 The law wars: the flag cases 165 9 The law wars: Article 23 173 10 The law wars: law as politics, politics as law 183 11 The law wars: law and civil society 191 12 The law wars: interpreting the law 197 13 The culture wars: globalism, nationalism and localism 209 14 The culture wars: creating the nation 223 15 The culture wars: education and the cultivation of identity 230 16 The culture wars: history, identity and nostalgia 239 17 The culture wars: freedom of the press 245 18 Conclusion: lost and found 250 Index 261 vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ThanksareduetoProfessorJeromeCohen,whofirstsuggestedthatIwrite this book. I am also grateful to friends, family and colleagues in Hong Kong,theUnitedKingdom,andatEuraConservationfortheirassistance and support. The Taiwan Research Centre at the London School of Economics and the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kongbothprovidedstimulatingintellectualenvironmentsinwhichtotest and develop ideas. The comments of anonymous readers at Cambridge University Press undoubtedly improved the text. Finally, I owe a lasting debttotheremarkablestaffattheAbrahamDarbyComprehensiveSchool (1965–1973) who gave a working-class schoolgirl the opportunity and confidence to ask big questions. viii
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