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  • Reunification through Water and Food: The Other Battle for Lives and Bodies in China's Hong Kong Policy

  • Siu-Keung Cheung
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 220 / December 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 October 2014, pp. 1012-1032
    Print publication:
    December 2014

  • The People's Republic of China failed to win the hearts and minds of the Hong Kong Chinese people before its resumption of the city's sovereignty on 1 July 1997. This article attempts to account for this contradiction in China's pursuit of reunification. By shifting the focus to the alternative battle to control the lives and bodies of the local population, this article demonstrates how China exploited its water and food supplies to the colony in order to control Hong Kong before and after 1997. The study pinpoints the bio-political measures used by China to secure Chinese sovereignty over Hong Kong. It concludes with an analysis of the current situation in Hong Kong and the implications of China's control of water and food supplies for the relations between the ruling state and the people of Hong Kong.

  • Creating “Masters of the Country” in Shanghai and Beijing: Discourse and the 1953–54 Local People's Congress Elections*

  • Jishun Zhang
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 220 / December 2014
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 October 2014, pp. 1071-1091
    Print publication:
    December 2014

  • The first round of elections for local people's congresses was an important moment in the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to create an image of the common people as the “masters of the country.” Lower-class people were portrayed in official propaganda as “masters” who were also supporters of the Party. Yet, those “masters” nevertheless displayed diverse political attitudes that were influenced by different local political cultures, particularly in Beijing and Shanghai. The official propaganda promoting the “masters” was a Communist strategy to gain political legitimacy that ironically created the foundation for heterodox mass movements.

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