ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a survey of the social and political conditions of Hong Kong and southern China that challenged the ideological anatomies of Chinese communism and British colonialism. It investigates two issues: the reasons why communist anti-colonialism resistance remained generally muted in Hong Kong from 1947 and inconsistencies in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) anatomy caused by its Old Society carnage in the southern provinces of China. The CCP discovered in the wake of the 1956 riot that its enjoyment of Hong Kong’s liberal conditions had weakened its anti-colonial anatomy. The party’s resistance activities across the border in China at times cut across Whitehall enjoying a workable relationship with the communist Chinese. Anatomical appearances given by British recognition for the communist government of China, although misleading, were nevertheless commonly thought at the time to carry risks. Soon after the invasion of southern Korea by the Chinese communist-backed ‘People’s Army’, Mao Tse-tung announced a purge of Rightists in his own country.
