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Hong Kong's Dual Identities And Sporting Mega-Event Policy, Brian Bridges
Hong Kong's Dual Identities And Sporting Mega-Event Policy, Brian Bridges
Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series
Since Hong Kong's reversion to China in 1997, the Special Administrative Region's government and its people have grappled with the problem of trying to pursue dual objectives at the same time. Firstly, to adjust to being a 'new' part of China and what that means in terms of national consciousness and local identities, particularly given the Beijing leaders' expectations that Hongkongers should come to 'love China'. Secondly, drawing at least in part on the past British colonial legacy, to maintain Hong Kong's international role as a cosmopolitan and commercial city as typified through the aspiration to be 'Asia's world city'. …