Conclusion:

Asia’s World City

20 April 2020
 Introduction
• Building Better Cities – APEC (2015)
– Hong Kong: Ranked 11
• Culture & Social Health: 17
• Connectivity: 27
• Health & Welfare: 18
• Environmental Sustainability: 11
• Economics: 28
– Central District Values
• Highest GINI Index
• Expat bubble (floated cosmopolitanism)
– Cultural vibrancy (rooted cosmopolitanism)
 Chungking Mansions (1)
• Located in Tsim Sha Tsui and opened in 1962
• Why Chungking Mansions Exist?
– The ease entry into Hong Kong for many in the
developing world
– The emergence of south China as a manufacturing
powerhouse
• People
– African traders: Low-end globalization
– Owners and Managers
• Small business
– Retail, agency, logistics, restaurants, hotels, etc.
 Chungking Mansions (2)
• Goods
– Mobile phones: copy goods and knockoffs
– Transaction
• Cash only
• Without contract
• Based on trust
– Lower cost for competition
• employ asylum seekers
– Handle conflicts
• Use of religious and social networks
• Low-end globalization
• Rooted cosmopolitanism
– Guest house, restaurant, grocery, cultural tour, etc.
– Safe and peaceful
 Street Scene in Hong Kong
• Street art in Hong Kong
– Cultural vibrancy
• HK government
– Spatial cleansing
• Key to rooted cosmopolitanism
– Localized internationalization
– Delocalized nationalization
– Challenges: imposed nationalism
 Education in Hong Kong (1)
• Education in Hong Kong (colonial period)
– Examination-oriented
– Depoliticized
– Decontextualized
• Education in Hong Kong (post-colonial period)
– Introduction of Liberal Studies
– Updated learning goal (2017):
• become an informed and responsible citizen with a sense of national and
global identity, appreciation of positive values and attitudes as well as
Chinese culture, and respect for pluralism in society
– Other learning experiences
• Moral and civic education
• Community service
 Education in Hong Kong (2)
• Understanding Cultures
– Essential and static
– Floated cosmopolitanism
– Rooted cosmopolitanism
• Minoritization
• Exoticization
– Outcomes: respect and prejudice reduction, yet
tokenism
– Engagement in a meaningful way
• Partnership, sustainability, and mutual empowerment
• Interculturalism (cf. multiculturalism)
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