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Historiography and Community Identity: Hong Kong Christians and the Recording of the 2014 Pro-Democracy Movement
Kang, Di
Kang, Di
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Identity is constructed in relation to an “other,” and proven in narratives of events which present this contrast. One way the people of Hong Kong define themselves is through their struggle for civil liberties. The 2014 Occupy protests were not only socio-political, but also religious. Religious identity is engrained in Hong Kong people’s self-understanding as an embodiment of the freedom they enjoy in contrast to those across the border. Through their ideological encounter with the government, Hong Kong’s Christian community negotiates their uniqueness not only through protest, but also through literature which interpret the movement theologically, serving as a collective memory preserving and consolidating the group’s self-identification. This paper, through the methodology of historiography and social identity theory, intends to study the self-identification of the Hong Kong Christian community as a force behind the protest, and how their identity interacts with the recording of events as part of Hong Kong history.
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2016
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Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, Chung Chi College, Shatin, Hong Kong