Why they are fighting? ---Intropections of Hong Kong's Independence movements
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Why they are fighting?—Introspections of Hong Kong’s independence movements.
‘The growth of the Chinese Nation is like the development of a river basin, originally from Han People(the main stream), and with the joining of the minorities(the contributing streams), eventually it became a relative close but inclusive society.’(Ch 'ien Mu, 1960) Indeed, China is an unified country of multi-ethnicity. Throughout the history, every rulers in the past took safeguarding the national unity as their primary tasks, even in the early stage of republican China, the Ephemeral Emperor Yuan Shih-kai, who was known as a traitor, still tried his best on avoiding the independences of Outer Mongolia and Tibet in the flames of war-time. As some historians claimed, Chinese nation has a strong complex of national unification and integration. ‘Reunification of the nation should be the best benefit of the people from different ethic groups’, Chairman Hu said, in other words, realizing national reunification is one of the primary conditions of ‘the great rejuvenation of China’. Although in economic aspects Chinese people have achieved a remarkable success in recently 30 years, the problems of ethnic contradictions and areal variations have never throughly been resolved. However, with the further practice of reform and opening up, its potential impacts are likely to become ‘the sand on the tread’, which would restrict the progress of the whole society and the growth of its economy. This essay is trying to introspect some existing practical problems of some Local Autonomous Regions like Sinkiang and Tibet through analyzing a trending issue which has a strong representative—Hong Kong’s independence movements.
Since 1997 when Hong Kong returned to China, under the framework of ‘One Country, two systems’, the Communist Party of China(CPC) have basically performed the promise of ‘Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong’ with a high degree of autonomy in most respects.
Why they are fighting?—Introspections of Hong Kong’s independence movements.
‘The growth of the Chinese Nation is like the development of a river basin, originally from Han People(the main stream), and with the joining of the minorities(the contributing streams), eventually it became a relative close but inclusive society.’(Ch 'ien Mu, 1960) Indeed, China is an unified country of multi-ethnicity. Throughout the history, every rulers in the past took safeguarding the national unity as their primary tasks, even in the early stage of republican China, the Ephemeral Emperor Yuan Shih-kai, who was known as a traitor, still tried his best on avoiding the independences of Outer Mongolia and Tibet in the flames of war-time. As some historians claimed, Chinese nation has a strong complex of national unification and integration. ‘Reunification of the nation should be the best benefit of the people from different ethic groups’, Chairman Hu said, in other words, realizing national reunification is one of the primary conditions of ‘the great rejuvenation of China’. Although in economic aspects Chinese people have achieved a remarkable success in recently 30 years, the problems of ethnic contradictions and areal variations have never throughly been resolved. However, with the further practice of reform and opening up, its potential impacts are likely to become ‘the sand on the tread’, which would restrict the progress of the whole society and the growth of its economy. This essay is trying to introspect some existing practical problems of some Local Autonomous Regions like Sinkiang and Tibet through analyzing a trending issue which has a strong representative—Hong Kong’s independence movements.
Since 1997 when Hong Kong returned to China, under the framework of ‘One Country, two systems’, the Communist Party of China(CPC) have basically performed the promise of ‘Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong’ with a high degree of autonomy in most respects.
References: 1. Ch 'ien Mu (1960, 18 June), Nationality and Culture of China, Page 167-189, Yang Ming Villa Press, Taipei. 2. 香港大學民意研究計劃 Public Opinion Programme(2012), The University of Hong Kong. URL:http://hkupop.hku.hk/chinese/ 3. Deng Xiaoping(1982, 24 September), Deng Xiaoping 's Collected Works, Page 132-135, People’s Publishing House, Beijing. 4. Jellinek, Laband and Carré de Malberg(1907), Three Elements of nations, page 23-42, Cambridge University Press. 5. Ministry of Education Singapore, The Importance of National Education, URL: http://www.ne.edu.sg/ 6. Lincoln A.(1863,19 November), Gettysburg Address, Bancroft Copy. 7. Jingtao Hu(2005), Scientific Outlook on Development，People’s Publishing House, China. Others: Hong Kong Basic Law.