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The politics of national history in post‐colonial Hong Kong
Author(s) -
Kan Flora L.F.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/09585176.2011.550764
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , politics , government (linguistics) , colonialism , curriculum , political science , national history , public administration , national interest , national government , law , library science , linguistics , philosophy , computer science
This article examines how interest groups in Hong Kong have politicised national history, an unpopular school subject, for their own political ends and allied themselves with the PRC against the SAR government and its policy of not making it a single, independent, compulsory core subject in the school curriculum. The article argues that this has been made possible by the ‘One country, two systems’ administrative structure.