ABSTRACT
Hong Kong has always been a site of internal migration within China, a fact that 150 years of colonialism has at once complicated and confirmed. Hong Kong is on the front lines of the mainland arrival (MA) taught postgraduate (TPg) phenomenon, the local impacts of which are at once confirming and redescribing global trends of Chinese educational migration. Even as Hong Kong finds its way forward when seeking to reintegrate its own uniquely postcolonial history and characteristics within the larger Chinese national context, Hong Kong tertiary institutions will still have a crucial role to play as academic stewards for their countrymen and women to the north. Finally, the author's experience in building a Hong Kong-based TPg that serves a majority of MAs affirms the conclusion of a recent study which found that the academic, in-class experiences of overseas Chinese postgraduate students can be a better indicator of successful assimilation to foreign life than their social and cultural interactions off campus.
