Projecting Britishness to Hong Kong : the British Council and Hong Kong House, nineteen-fifties to nineteen-seventies
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Historical Research
Publication Date
11-1-2012
Volume
85
Issue
230
First Page
691
Last Page
709
Abstract
This article examines post-war British cultural diplomacy in Hong Kong, focusing on the British Council and Hong Kong House. Drawing on colonial office, British Council and Hong Kong government archival collections, it argues that neither the British nor Hong Kong governments placed a high priority on promoting British cultural values to the Hong Kong Chinese. Moreover, even this limited emphasis declined after the late nineteen-sixties, reflecting both Britain's retreat from what John Darwin calls the 'empire project' and the emergence of a more pronounced Hong Kong local identity.
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2281.2012.00611.x
Print ISSN
09503471
E-ISSN
14682281
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Copyright © 2012 Institute of Historical Research
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Additional Information
Earlier versions of this article were presented to the 2010 ‘Crossroads’ conference of the Association for Cultural Studies, and to the history department seminar at Hong Kong University.
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Hampton, M. (2012). Projecting Britishness to Hong Kong: The British Council and Hong Kong House, nineteen-fifties to nineteen-seventies. Historical Research, 85(230), 691-709. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2012.00611.x