Hongkongnessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Hongkongness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of belonging to or association with Hong Kong.
   • 2001, Siumi Maria Tam, “Lost, and Found?: Reconstructing Hong Kong Identity in the Idiosyncrasy and Syncretism of Yumcha”, in David Y. H. Wu, Tan Chee-Beng, editors, Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 64:

     Like other heunggongyahn, they are fiercely proud of their Hongkongness, and a feeling of forced resignation called for a reproduction of another Hong Kong in another time-space.

   • 2003, Ka-Ming Wu, “Discourse on Baau Yih Naai (Keeping Concubines): Questions of Citizenship and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong”, in Eliza W.Y. Lee, editor, Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy, Vancouver: UBC Press, →ISBN, page 135:

     In the first part of this chapter, I show how the discourse is consonant with the cultural and ethnic construction of Hongkongness, whereby Hong Kong people differentiate themselves from the mainland Chinese.

   • 2007, Shu-mei Shih, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 164:

     Hongkongness remains ambivalent and eludes cultural nationalists' attempt to demarcate its boundaries. If anything, Hongkongness is an act of staging or performance: the archaeological digs, the interviews, the artifacts, and so forth are the props for this staging.

   • 2011, Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 39:

     They proclaim their Hongkongness through belonging to a building that Africans and Indians may love, but that many Hong Kong people are ashamed of.