Beijing Olympics under 'One country, Two systems': An ethnographic study of Hong Kong students' attitudes towards Mainland China

Beijing Olympics under 'One country, Two systems': An ethnographic study of Hong Kong students' attitudes towards Mainland China

• Ho, Glos Chinese University of Hong Kong

International Journal of the History of Sport, 27(3), 570-587, 2010

Routledge

2010

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GF Humanities & Arts
• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Olympic Games (29th : 2008 : Beijing, China) Nationalism Olympic Games Students -- Attitudes Chinese Students National Characteristics, Chinese Social Aspects Hong Kong -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty From Great Britain, 1997 Beijing (China) Great Britain China

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This paper reports on an ethnographic field research conducted in Beijing in 2007, with an attempt to examine the cognitive and affective orientation dimensions of a group of Hong Kong students toward the Beijing 2008 Olympics and their negotiation of national identity. In 1997, China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong under the principle of 'One Country, Two Systems,' continuing a long history of Hong Kong people struggling with their national identity. Study tours to Mainland China had been arranged as an extension of national education, with the Beijing Olympics as the main theme. With field notes and focus groups, this study found that the tour provoked in the students an interesting mixture of pride and skepticism and also reinforced their 'insider/outsider' identity crisis. This article concludes that the debate over the use of Beijing Olympics as national education reflects an intrinsic paradox of the principle of 'One Country, Two Systems.'
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523360903556899 ]

• English

Journal Articles

• 09523367

• 10.1080/09523360903556899

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/05d2ebb0

2011-01-20