ABSTRACT
China-centric leftist poetry that subsists on CCP- or PRC-backed institutions took root in Hong Kong in the late 1930s and has undergone ups and downs in different historical episodes. This chapter historicizes Hong Kong's Chinese leftist poetry and emphasizes its convergence with the China-centric conceptualization of Huawen wenxue in Hong Kong's post-1997 era. It then circles back to engage its China-centric ideology with the Sinophone's articulation against China-centrism. It illustrates that Sinitic Hong Kong poetry is pulled by the Sinophone and Huawen wenxue, two critical categories with opposing ideological frameworks toward China. The chapter ends with voicing an expansive worry about the leftist bloc's increasing threat to Sinophone Hong Kong poetry's institutional livelihood.
