ABSTRACT
This chapter is a case study of the anti-mainland visitors campaign which serves as one of the origins of nativism in Hong Kong. It exemplifies the anti-China sentiment running high across the world recently. In Hong Kong, it came to the surface as a result of the city’s closer economic ties to China, accompanied with the mainland visitors’ increasing wealth, shopping activities, mobility and even physical presence. It is argued that the local belonging figures in the pursuit of ethnocracy. The new call for Hong Kong identity, with strong bio-political and governmental implications, is derived from the anxiety over the blurring of the boundaries with China. The frustration over the inability to settle Hong Kong’s distinction with the “intimate other” is mixed with the anguish over the “disappearance” of Hong Kong.
