Public opinion polls and covert colonialism in British Hong Kong

Mok, Florence

doi:10.1177/0920203x18787431

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“…Technological innovations and taking into account new theoretical approaches improve and activate the methods and techniques of public surveys. Also, special attention should be paid to psychological factors that can arouse interest and attract people (Mok, 2019; Tian et al, 2018).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retracted: Public opinion as a means of managing social processes

Bubnov

Gulyaev

Krasnyanskiy

et al. 2021

Journal Community Psychology

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The relevance of the study is expressed by the improvement and development of tools for managing social processes and public procedures. There are a large number of concepts and theories that explain certain aspects of public opinion: exposure to influence, an impact on people's actions, and its contradictory nature. The main forming factors of individual behavior are the stereotypes and values that are developed within society. In moments of social instability, the problem of governance and expression of public opinion progresses. The purpose of the study is to consider public opinion similarly and to search for patterns of its functioning. At present, there is a lack of an expressly unified model that allows characterizing all the laws of existence and its phenomena. Public opinion is understudied, despite the large volumes of theoretical research. This is explained by the predominance of psychological and sociological scientific concepts in the analysis of public opinion. This study is based on specific methods of conducting various sociological monitoring and developments in the field of methodology. Modern humanitarian knowledge misses certain problems related to the role of public opinion in the context of social processes. The practical significance of this study lies in the investigation and distribution of approaches to the study of public opinion as a means of managing social processes.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retracted: Public opinion as a means of managing social processes

Bubnov

Gulyaev

Krasnyanskiy

et al. 2021

Journal Community Psychology

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“…In other words, laws have been used as policy instruments in Hong Kong by both Britain and the Chinese regime to achieve the policy priorities of political stability and social control to the detriment of the protection of individual rights. Another archival study reveals how the colonial administration constructed public opinion, especially through 'changing public attitudes towards the colonial government, the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China', also known as 'covert colonialism' (Mok 2019). Such manipulation of the media also informs Beijing's perception of the effects of press freedom, where Western and local media may be used as a political tool and counter-force manipulated by governments of Western countries in a covert way.…”

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Hong Kong in the age of the PRC’s alienation from the international system: In search of normative consensus

Wang

2023

Glob. Con.

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Hong Kong presents a test case of China’s willingness to adapt Western liberal values of individual freedom and the rule of law in a corner of China. The Western model of governance, along with its common law system and capitalist economic system, has been permitted to operate side by side with the Chinese socialist system within the framework of Chinese sovereignty and the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) political and legal system. The formation and implementation of the policy of ‘one country, two systems’ (OCTS) entail Chinese law-makers’ selective integration of international and Western rules of governance into the Hong Kong and China context to serve the interests of the PRC party regime. This article explores the approaches taken by the PRC to the governance of Hong Kong in light of the regime’s political and economic goals and how the Western concept of rule of law and autonomy is perceived and substantiated in terms of the communist ideology. The author argues that the intrinsic value of OCTS lies in seeking complementarity and coexistence between the Western liberal norms of governance and Chinese communist ideology, and that this intrinsic value should be upheld and remain in full force to serve as a normative consensus between China and the West.

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“…Prosperity/stability had not merely underwritten the legitimacy of the British colonial regime in the minds of many Hong Kongers; the notions also became a bargaining chip in the ensuing Sino-British negotiations. MacLehose hoped that the perception of good British governance would produce a negotiating environment favorable to continued British administration (Mok 2018). The CCP denied the indispensability of continued British governance but acknowledged the mutual goal of prosperity/ stability, insisting on its realization through joint Sino-British efforts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The National Archives (TNA), United Kingdom, FCO40/329. Cited by FlorenceMok (2018), who emphasized the importance of public opinion for the "alien state to retain legitimacy. "…”

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Constructing the Legitimacy of Governance in Hong Kong: “Prosperity and Stability” Meets “Democracy and Freedom”

Wong

2022

J of Asian Stud

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The current political crisis in Hong Kong is characterized by a level of social unrest that the city has not seen since the riots of 1966–67. After that earlier round of turmoil, the British colonial regime secured legitimacy through socioeconomic improvement in Hong Kong. “Prosperity and Stability” became the hallmark of Hong Kong's success, which extended into the period of political uncertainty in the 1980s. Transcending the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, this catchphrase was adopted as the slogan of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government in its bid for legitimacy through socioeconomic appeals. Against this perennial state rhetoric, grassroots protesters began to demand “Democracy and Freedom” around June Fourth. These public demands have escalated since the Umbrella Movement in an environment of socioeconomic regression. Examining these two pairs of keywords—prosperity/stability and democracy/freedom—this article underscores the contention in the legitimacy of governance in Hong Kong since the closing decades of British rule. This analysis indicates that it would be unproductive for the governing authorities or the protesters to deny the earnestness of either the political or socioeconomic assertions in the ongoing contention of legitimacy to govern Hong Kong.

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Public opinion polls and covert colonialism in British Hong Kong

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Retracted: Public opinion as a means of managing social processes

Retracted: Public opinion as a means of managing social processes

Hong Kong in the age of the PRC’s alienation from the international system: In search of normative consensus

Constructing the Legitimacy of Governance in Hong Kong: “Prosperity and Stability” Meets “Democracy and Freedom”

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