ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to review relevant literature on the understandings and development of Hong Kong people's perceptions of national identity. It also helps to obtain an overview of what has been written and discussed about national identity and meanings of National Education in Hong Kong. The selection time frame is both immediately before and after the handover of sovereignty in 1997. This chapter will also review the previous studies of national identity of the Hong Kong people before 1997 and the perceptions on national identity after the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997. The politics of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) will cast a contextual remark for what was going on during the post-1997 era. The national identity issue and National Education have been tied up with the politics of Hong Kong. Hong Kong's political system could be described as a consultative autocracy which places enormous efforts on consultation.
