ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes how China has been represented in popular discourses in Hong Kong since the 1980s, when Hong Kong's retrocession was decided. Before the retrocession, more than half of the secondary schools in Hong Kong were Anglo-Chinese schools in which all subjects were taught in English except for Chinese language and Chinese History. As evidenced in Chinese History textbooks from the 1950s to the 1980s, one of the main themes in history textbooks was the moral assessment of political leaders in dynastic history. In a different period of post-World War II history, Hong Kong has become a refuge for political dissidents and a base for political activism against the CCP, such as the annual Hong Kong of the 1989 Tian'anmen Square social movement and street protests in support of freeing political prisoners in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
