Introduction Before 1997, Hong Kong was being the colony of the United Kingdom, politics in Hong Kong is different from the mainland China and it is unique from other countries. After 1997, the sovereignty of Hong Kong is regressed to China, then the Hong Kong politics was under the foundation of ‘One Country Two systems’ and it is regulated by the Basic Law of Hong Kong. In almost each countries’ political system, political parties would be found. Political parties could divide into two main
to discuss the statement – “The power of pressure groups to influence government is, in reality, limited.” with examples of Hong Kong. Green Sense (2004), The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU, 1948), Hong Kong Professional Teahers’ Unions (HKPTU, 2010) and The Association for the Advancement of Feminism (AAF, 1984), which are some of the pressure groups in Hong Kong. Pressure groups and interest groups could be the same meanings in a certain way, when an interest group actively chase the
have eventually approved the funding for the construction of Guandzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL), which costs $66.9 billion. This astronomical cost raised a lot of discussions that whether the railway worthed it or not. The whole alignment of the XRL railway is about 140 kilometres with its intermediate stations in Humen, Longhua and Futian. Some have argued that the new railway could contribute to Hong Kong's short-term and long-term development. Others have argued that the whole
Understanding Social Welfare of Hong Kong Hong Kong has a unique history, governing system and economy. These three unique features are crucial to an understanding of the social welfare in the territory. In this essay, I will illustrate the development of social welfare in Hong Kong during different periods. At the end of the paper, I would take a look at the changing attitude of Hong Kong people towards the social policy. Before World War II In this period, the term 'social welfare'
cohesion. These social elements accelerate the development of the society. Hong Kong returned to China but Hong Kong youth is deficient in national consciousness and claimed that they are Hong Kong citizens rather than Chinese. According to a study by the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute, one in three secondary students lack awareness of national identity Chinese. The teenagers disgust the policy control that the Hong Kong government implemented the policy according to the instruction by the central
The Hong Kong Chinese Community The Hong Kong Chinese community is an affluent, educated, and swelling population in the Greater Toronto Area. The enigma is why they have only made marginal inroads into the political arena. Olivia Chow, a Metro councilor representing the Downtown ward says "this community has potential to be very powerful...it's nowhere near its potential." Chow is the highest-profile Hong Kong expatriate to win elected office in the GTA. Others include Tam Goosen, Soo Wong, Carrie
The Mainland China and Hong Kong can be compared based on so many different and distinct elements. As far as the mainland China culture is concerned, from historical point of view traditionally the cultural norms and values of China is still followed and implied by the Hong Kong largely (Ren et al., 2015). The Hong Kong had a separate and distinct system of local government along with the free press. The culture of Hong Kong is still influenced by the English traditions and norm as well. Therefore
they found that conflict between groups and individuals did not occur. Therefore, maybe there are more reasons that then nature of goal to determined intergroup behaviour (Turner, 1981) and it is not enough to explain the intergroup behaviour of Hong Kong riot. With realistic conflict theory, it is only possible to help understand one of the reasons of protesters and the police consider themselves as two separate groups since they have the same goal but cannot explain the hostility between two parties
Chinese people accepted those exotics pops further to occupied the local market. Hong Kong—an example of international design The success of Coca-Cola project is only a just the tip of the iceberg. Chan has achieved an internation... ... middle of paper ... ...r should abandon their own design identities that established from their cultural and educational background. From the great achievement that Hong Kong designers has presented, we can discover that the international design is not a simply
Hong Kong in the post Second World War period has experienced quite a number of social changes, in terms of political condition, economy and population structure. Family, as one of the most principal social institutions, is shaped by these external forces, which give rise to transformations in the familial ethos, along with different sets of familial values and practices. However, family is not only at the receiving end of social changes (OUHK, 2013). It is able to exert certain influences on society
in the history of Hong Kong" taken from Xu Xi's History's Fiction: stories from the city of Hong Kong. The story consists of two diaries written on 30th June and 1st July 1997 which describe how the main character, Lam Yam Kuen, spent these two important days in Hong Kong's history. Through the description of Lam's visit to Uncle Check's restaurant and the dinner party at his workplace, the author shows the diverse feelings of Hong Kong people towards the handover of Hong Kong to her motherland,
maintained and gained official status in Hong Kong. Based on the theory, Hong Kong should be categorized into the outer circle. However, English is mainly adopted in international communication rather than in personal domains. (Groves, 2009, p.57) In this view, Hong Kong also has the trait of extending circle. Furthermore, Hong Kong has gone through a transition from British colony to a Special Administrative Region of China. The dramatic change of social politics called for a great change of linguistic
The idea of woman’s right and equality has imported to Hong Kong over 60 years. However, inequality are still appear in this land and women are facing increasing unfair treatments in job opportunities. Female workers only take up minority over all workers in key industries with approximately less earning with the work when compared to male workers. Over half of the complaints received by the Equal Opportunities Commission were concerned workplaces, of which more than forty percentage were related
in crisscross of time and space plays a significant role in relieving historical, national or individual pain through parallel narrative styles, taking Japanese pure love film Love Letter (1995), South Korean romantic film The Classic (2003) and Hong Kong nostalgia film The City of Glass (1998) for example. So the following paragraphs will analyze these films from three aspects: socio-cultural characteristics in each region and parallel narrative styles, as well as the thematic trait of pain-recovery
performance artworks into political and social issues, thus formulate the features of political life in Hong Kong. Since the change in sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the political opportunities and the shaping of collective action of social movements are changing comparing with the politically stable colony, as during the process of de-colonization and the China’s intervention into Hong Kong’s social and public affairs, there were the results of politicization of social conflict. Thus, different
3 Overall situation around the world------------------------------------------------------------------3 Situation in Hong Kong----------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Main issue addressed-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 Situation in particular countries; and How if Hong Kong adopt policies from them---------------------------------------------------------7 Conclusion------------------------
FROM WEB TO STREET: OCCUPY WALL STREET AND 2014 HONG KONG PROTESTS —A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH OF NEW MEDIA IN SOCIAL ACTIVISM Yihong (Steven) Li Instructor: Prof. Arely Zimmerman Introduction: It is generally acknowledged that new media plays an important role in participatory politics and social activism. However, it remains ambivalent to what extent new media engages social change. Existing debates and researches approach the problem from broad generalizations and have drawn different conclusions
know that their privacy has been and was being breached. Some background information on Edward Snowden is that he is 29 years old and he is from Hawaii he flew from Hawaii to Hong Kong where he then told his information to reporters from Guardian a newspaper from the UK that had two of their reporters fly to Hong Kong to do a paper on him “Snowden said he later worked as a security guard for the NSA and then took a computer security job with the CIA. He left that job in 2009 and moved on to
National Identity is the notion and cohesive whole of a nation. It’s the particular way factors such as culture, language and tradition build a nation. In this essay I will examine how Hong Kong (HK) horror is empirical to the nation’s identity. My case study will be ‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ (1987) as well as other supportive substantiations i.e. Books and websites. The integrity within Chinas national identity is said to be ephemeral changing since the archaic China. After The Treaty of Nanjing (1842-1997)
REFLECTION ON INTEGRATION OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT THROUGH HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT: CASES FROM THREE CONTINENTS, GOVERNING TRANSITIONS IN THE SUSTAINABILITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE, AND CITIES AND THE MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Introduction Environmental issues expand into a global level, and it is not likely tackled by the country itself. A raising awareness on the environmental matter among nations, the cooperation between nations is essential. In the three articles, they have adopted