虽然香港有只返回到中国不到20年的时间里，它已经成为发展最快的城市在中国，最高的住房价格，最高档的娱乐设施和接收其超级巨星的最关注在大陆中国的观众。此外，这是唯一的城市，学生接受双语教育。因此，英语论文题目，在中国的其他地区，掌握英语是帮助学习者获取利润的技能。然而，在本港，能够用英文说、写的能力，并不是一种技能。事实上，英语只是作为他们的语言，他们的交流工具，就像在本港的母语的人一样。最重要的是，最鲜明的特点是，大多数人的行为，如西方人，而不是传统的中国。 Although Hong Kong has only returned to China for less than two decades, it has been the fast developing city in China, with the highest housing price, the fanciest entertainment facilities and its superstars receive the most attention from the audiences in mainland China. Besides, this is the only city where students receive bilingual education. Therefore, in other parts of China, mastering English language is the skill that helps the learners to make profits. However, in Hong Kong, being able to speak and write in English is not counted as a skill. In fact, English is only used as their language, their tool to communicate, just like the mother tongue of people in Hong Kong. Most importantly, the most distinctive feature in Hong Kong is that most people act like westerners instead of traditional Chinese. Even in high schools and universities, teachers and professors have been instilling western ideology and western values into the students’ heads. As a result, when a new comer arrived in Hong Kong, they would feel like they are in land full of people with Asian faces but western values.
In fact, I have been curious about how the western imperial powers inserted influences on modern Hong Kong. Also, I am wondering how come people in Hong Kong are more proud of themselves being thought as a British rather than a Chinese. Recently, a lot of youngsters in Hong Kong are protesting against the Peking government. Some of them even went out of line to make a request that Hong Kong shall return to the ruling of the United Kingdom. There are a lot of questions worth studying to find out why the majority of people in modern Hong Kong are so eager to demonstrate western values and to cozy up to western rulers.
The history of Hong Kong is worth mentioning. The name Hong Kong actually means “the Fragrant Harbor” in Chinese. (John Mark Carroll, 2) Therefore, this island’s origination is a Chinese one. Before January 25th, 1842, Hong Kong was a quiet coastal city in China. However, that night, a British naval crew landed on the shore of Hong Kong. In the next morning, the leaders and the officials of the British naval crew directly start their possession of the small island. Since that day, Hong Kong had been under the British occupation, ceded by the Qing Dynasty to the Great Britain. (John Mark Carroll, 3)
Hong Kong is not only an important part of modern Chinese history. Besides, it is part of British history as well. (John Mark Carroll, 4) It is often well recognized that even though Hong Kong owns the “Chinese root”, most of itself currently is shaped by the British colonial rule. Before 1942 when Hong Kong still belonged to the Qing Dynasty, the society, economy and politics around the world did not change so dramatically. Although there were changes, most of them were not noticeable. Before 1942, the notion of democracy and freedom had not been widely recognized all around the world. The way of developing economy and making profits in the majority parts of China were dependent on growing crops.
On the contrary, after 1942, it was the time when historical turns happened. Farmers started to give up their cropping machines to work in factories. People began to doubt the ruling of a single emperor. Hong Kong was put under the domination of the western power during the time when most changes in political life, economic life and cultural life happened. That is why most historians do not agree that the modern Hong Kong is shaped and influenced by China. On the contrary, it is the Colonialism that transformed Hong Kong’s historical development. According to John Mark Carroll, the author of the book A Concise History of Hong Kong, “Simply put, Hong Kong would not have become the place it did had it not been a British colony for over 150 years. ” (John Mark Carroll, 5)
I have chosen to read the article Putting Knowledge in its Place: Science, Colonialism and the Postcolonial written by Suman Seth. In fact, I have learned that there is the common idea that western imperial nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America have brought new science as well as new technology to their colonies. Historians have defined that the new science and technology that western power brought to the new land is an inevitable part of the colony being civilized. (Suman Seth, 1 ) According to Suman Seth, although the intelligent people within the place that was occupied and colonized have been trying to refuse to admit that fact that the science and technology in the colony is a way of allying with the imperialist officials, this fact cannot be denied. Take Hong Kong as an example, although Hong Kong since 1997 had broken away from the domination of the United Kingdom, right now, a lot of companied, institutions or factories which were built by the British people while they were ruling Hong Kong still exist. If the western imperial power had not colonized Hong Kong after 1949, the year when the People’s Republic of China was founded, the economic development in Hong Kong would not be so prosperous. The western imperial powers have left the notion of creation, new technology and advanced scientific knowledge in Hong Kong, which helps Hong Kong become the wealthiest city in China.
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