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This assignment is a research essay of 1500-2000 words based on at least ten published sources (books, ebooks or articles, not Web sources). The topic is up to you, as long as the essay takes Hong Kong as its main focus. For example, essays on the Opium War or the Korean War should focus on how these wars affected Hong Kong, not on the wars themselves. You are encouraged to come up with your own topic, but below are some examples:
1. “As far as fairness was concerned, the Chinese who found themselves in a British court were generally treated fairly and judiciously, notwithstanding the prejudices of the time.” Is this a convincing assessment of the state of justice in late-nineteenth century Hong Kong?
2. Why have Chinese and Europeans in Hong Kong historically lived such separate lives? How has this affected Hong Kong’s social development?
3. Why was official corruption such a problem in the 1960s and 1970s?
4. Why was the Hong Kong government so slow to abolish the mui tsai system?
5. “A success story, almost without parallel” (Governor Chris Patten, 23 February 1997): Is this a reasonable comment on Hong Kong at the end of British colonial rule? If so, to what should this success be attributed?
6. Compare the causes and consequences of the general strike-boycott of 1925-1926 with the causes and consequences of the disturbances of 1967. Which of these two challenges to colonial rule had the greatest impact on Hong Kong? Why?
7. Do the inhabitants of Hong Kong share a distinct identity? What social, political, economic, and cultural aspects have shaped this identity?
8. “A Hong Kong for East Asians”: How did the Japanese government justify its occupation of Hong Kong from 1941 to 1945? How did the experience of Japanese rule confirm or contradict these claims?
9. How did the Tiananmen Massacre in June 1989 affect people in Hong Kong?
10. What explanations have been given for the lack of democratic government in Hong Kong since 1945? Which of these explanations do you find most convincing? Why?
11. Compare the condition of women in Hong Kong and in Mainland China since the 1950s. What accounts for these differences?
12. How did Hong Kong’s experience as a British colony affect its political development?
13. What role did Hong Kong play in the growth of Chinese nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
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