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Hongkongness

Hongkongness noun: the state or quality of belonging to or association with Hong Kong.

Noun

Hongkongness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of belonging to or association with Hong Kong.
    • 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.2001, Siumi Maria Tam, “Lost, and Found?: Reconstructing Hong Kong Identity in the Idiosyncrasy and Syncretism of Yumcha”, in David Y. H. Wu, Tan Chee-Beng, editors, Changing Chinese Foodways in...
    • 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.2003, Ka-Ming Wu, “Discourse on Baau Yih Naai (Keeping Concubines): Questions of Citizenship and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong”, in Eliza W.Y. Lee, editor, Gender and Change in Hong Kong...

Examples of Hongkongness in a sentence

  • Hongkongness remains ambivalent and eludes cultural nationalists' attempt to demarcate its boundaries.2007, Shu-mei Shih, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN...
  • They proclaim their Hongkongness through belonging to a building that Africans and Indians may love, but that many Hong Kong people are ashamed of.2011, Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN...

Origin of Hongkongness

From Hongkong + -ness.

Questions about Hongkongness

What does Hongkongness mean?
Hongkongness means the state or quality of belonging to or association with Hong Kong.
How do you use Hongkongness in a sentence?
Hongkongness remains ambivalent and eludes cultural nationalists' attempt to demarcate its boundaries.
What part of speech is Hongkongness?
Hongkongness is a noun.

Words near Hongkongness in the dictionary

  1. Hongkongese
  2. Hongkongian
  3. Hongkongians
  4. Hongkongite
  5. Hongkongites
  6. Hongkongness
  7. Hongkou
  8. Hongqi
  9. Hongqiao
  10. hongs
  11. Hongshan

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