Chinese Illicit Immigration into Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1970–1980

Mok, Florence

doi:10.1080/03086534.2020.1848402

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“…The Hong Kong government's switch to a lenient policy toward illegal immigrants after the border incidents caused a growth in emigration from China. Bao'an became the easiest route to take for mainlanders fleeing the Cultural Revolution (Mok 2020).…”

Section: “Use Hong Kong To Construct Bao'an”: 1961–65mentioning

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Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Bao'an (Shenzhen) and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening

Zhou¹

2021

J of Asian Stud

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Located immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China's most successful special economic zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the “social laboratory” of reform and opening, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People's Republic of China's adoption of market principles and entrance into the world economy in the late 1970s. This article looks at prototypes of the SEZ in Bao'an County, the precursor to Shenzhen during the Mao era (1949–76). Between 1949 and 1978, Bao'an was a liminal space where state endeavors to establish a socialist economy were challenged by capitalist influences from the adjacent British Crown colony of Hong Kong. To create an enclave of exception to socialism, Communist cadres in Bao'an promoted individualized, duty-free cross-border trade and informal foreign investment schemes as early as 1961. Although beholden to the inward-looking planned economy and stymied by radical leftist campaigns, these local improvisations formed the foundation for the SEZ—the hallmark of Deng Xiaoping's economic statecraft.

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Section: “Use Hong Kong To Construct Bao'an”: 1961–65mentioning

confidence: 99%

Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Bao'an (Shenzhen) and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening

Zhou¹

2021

J of Asian Stud

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Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–1967

Mok

Wong

et al. 2023

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Using declassified colonial and British records in Hong Kong and London, as well as memoirs of former leftists and newspapers, this article explores the strategies the Hong Kong colonial government employed in a propaganda campaign to garner political support of the rural population in the New Territories, a porous land frontier during the Cold War. It also analyses the varying political orientations of migrant farmers, who often had received economic benefits from both the colonial government and the leftist organizations. This article reveals that the colonial government established the Vegetable Marketing Organization (VMO), a state-owned enterprise, to first nationalize the vegetable wholesale market in the immediate post-war period, and subsequently used it to combat increasing political influence and anti-government activities of the communist-controlled Society of Plantations. Despite the improvement of the livelihood of immigrant farmers, the VMO Scheme failed to out-compete the Society economically, which was ultimately eliminated by draconian measures. Through studying the agrarian politics and economic contestations in Hong Kong’s rural area, this article provides a lens on how the Cold War was played out at a village level in East Asia.

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Stamping ‘Imagination and Sensibility’: Objects, Culture, and Governance in Late Colonial Hong Kong

Pang

2022

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Chinese Illicit Immigration into Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1970–1980

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Bao'an (Shenzhen) and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening

Leveraging Liminality: The Border Town of Bao'an (Shenzhen) and the Origins of China's Reform and Opening

Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–1967

Stamping ‘Imagination and Sensibility’: Objects, Culture, and Governance in Late Colonial Hong Kong

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