ABSTRACT
Hong Kong is located at the southern apex of China. It is a former British colony and now an international fi nance center heavily saturated with global culture and with capitalist values. While the globalized conceptions of democracy, freedom, capitalism and free economy have either been artifi cially implanted into the social structures during colonial rule or subtly dissolved and assimilated into the local culture through cultural and mediated contacts with the West, such Western ideologies are foreign to Hong Kong’s motherland China. The border-crossing nature between Hong Kong and China in terms of information fl ow, ideologies, consumable goods, popular images and worldviews thus addresses the problems of globalizing China through a politically marginal but globalized city in Asia.
