Hongkongness

English Etymology From en Hongkong -ness. Noun - The state or quality of belonging to or association with Hong Kong. en 2001 Lost, and Found?: Reconstructing Hong Kong Identity in the Idiosyncrasy and Syncretism of Yumcha Siumi Maria Tam David Y. H. Wu; Tan Chee-Beng Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia Hong Kong The Chinese University Press 962-201-914-5 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=p5Mw_WTLhiYC&pg=PA64 Like other heunggongyahn, they are fiercely proud of their Hongkongness, and a feeling of forced resignation called for a reproduction of another Hong Kong in another time-space. en 2003 Ka-Ming Wu Discourse on Baau Yih Naai (Keeping Concubines): Questions of Citizenship and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong Eliza W.Y. Lee Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy Vancouver UBC Press 0-7748-0994-9 135 https://books.google.ca/books?id=He8jnOx_wEAC&pg=PA135 In the first part of this chapter, I show how the discourse is consonant with the cultural and ethnic construction of Hongkongness, whereby Hong Kong people differentiate themselves from the mainland Chinese. en 2007 Shu-mei Shih Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific Berkeley University of California Press 9780520940154 164 https://books.google.com/books?id=HoZX3XSgm-0C&pg=PA164 Hongkongness remains ambivalent and eludes cultural nationalists' attempt to demarcate its boundaries. If anything, Hongkongness is an act of staging or performance: the archaeological digs, the interviews, the artifacts, and so forth are the props for this staging. en 2011 The University of Chicago Press Chicago 978-0-226-51019-4 Gordon Mathews Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=oIDPqgT3thwC&pg=PA39 They proclaim their Hongkongness through belonging to a building that Africans and Indians may love, but that many Hong Kong people are ashamed of.