Two systems, two countries : a nationalist guide to Hong Kong / Kevin Carrico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrico, Kevin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--China--Hong Kong--21st century.

Nationalism.

Hong Kong (China)--Politics and government--1997-.

Hong Kong (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

As Hong Kong is integrated into the People's Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why. Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its main schools of thought: city-state theory, self-determination, independence, and returnism. The idea of Hong Kong independence, Kevin Carrico shows, is more than just a provocation testing Beijing's red lines: it represents a collective awakening to the failure of One Country Two Systems and the need to transcend obsolete orthodoxies. With a conclusion that examines Hong Kong nationalism's influence on the 2019 protest movement, Two Systems, Two Countries is an engaging and accessible introduction to the tumultuous shifts in Hong Kong politics and identity over the past decade.

Contents:

Intro

Imprint

Subvention

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Newest Nationalism

From One Country, Two Systems to Two Systems, Two Countries

A Note on Method and Surveillance

Layout of the Book

1. Hong Kong Ethnogenesis

Take One: The Psychopathology of Identity

Take Two: Noncompliance Cycle

Take Three: Toward a Critique of Hong Kong under Chinese Rule

Take Four: On the Ethnicization of the Hong Kong Police Force

2. Two Systems, Two Countries: New Directions in Political Thought in Hong Kong since 2011

From City-State Theory to Eternal Basic Law

Self-Determination: An Unrequited Social Contract

Hong Kong Independence

Returnism: Party Like It's 1997

Conclusion: Hong Kong's Political Enlightenment

3. Seeing (Exactly) Like a State: Knowledge/Power in the Hong Kong-China Relationship

Toward a Structuralist Orientalism

Hong Kong as Child

Hong Kong as Hysteric

Hong Kong as Outlaw

Hong Kong as Virus: One Body, Two Systems

From Knowledge/Power to Ignorance/Power to Knowledge versus Power: The Not-So-Hidden Script of Hong Kong Policy

Conclusion: Knowledge versus Power

Character Glossary with Cantonese (Yale) and Mandarin (Pinyin) Romanization

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520386761

0520386760

OCLC:

1298387218