DOI
10.22191/buuj/5/1/12
Faculty Sponsor
Karen-edis Barzman
Abstract
Hong Kong’s “One Country, Two Systems” government regime will end by 2047and it will promote the country’s integration into the People’s Republic of China (PRC). To ensure a smooth transition, by eliminating the border and other forms of geographic barriers that separate the two countries, the PRC has been issuing measures to promote integration. However, despite on-going practices of integration, Hong Kong continues to strengthen its border with China through infrastructural and bureaucratic means, reinforcing a British-colonial era border regime. Thus, my research focuses on this contradiction between the elimination and reinforcement of the Hong Kong-China border as an attempt to understand the socio-political forces that have produced this dynamic. Analyzing the historical conditions that have produced the Hong Kong-China border regime through the lens of material and visual culture, I have come to the conclusion that Hong Kong continues to invest in the border as a political strategy to resist Mainlandization so that its autonomy continues to be preserved.
Recommended Citation
Mok, A. (2019). Hong Kong's Border Regime and its Role in National Sovereignty. Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22191/buuj/5/1/12
