Meaning of Hongkongness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or quality of belonging to or association with Hong Kong.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

CEFR level