ABSTRACT
Hong Kong is an economic mecca famous for business and trading. The central government perceived that Hong Kong’s education, judicial systems, the civil service, and even the mass media are all dominated by the so called Western values: ‘freedom,’ ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’, and they would facilitate the US perpetuating its global domination through predatory capitalism and political destabilization. Re-sinicization refers to a process whereby Hong Kong resumes her Chinese identity, equivalent to her Mainland counterpart, through an assimilation process. Re-colonization might apply to the understanding of an ongoing process of centralization of power from Hong Kong to the central government in different aspects. The demise of Hong Kong popular culture is manifested by the absorption of Cantopop singers and entertainment artistes into China’s mainstream popular culture. The emergence of civil society in Hong Kong after 2003 also fostered more alliances and networks on creative advocacies of social issues.
