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SUMMARY:Edward Vickers - How the National Security Law is Shaping Educati
 on in Hong Kong
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DESCRIPTION:The implications of Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL)\,
  which came into force in July 2020\, are still being worked out in many
  spheres of life in the HKSAR. Education has been a major focus of measu
 res relating to the new law. During the protests of 2019-2020\, schools 
 and universities were widely blamed by the mainland and pro-Beijing pres
 s for fomenting seditious sentiment among Hong Kong youth. In the afterm
 ath of those protests\, the NSL has mandated an overhaul of school curri
 cula and educational governance designed to ensure the inculcation of pa
 triotism and absolute loyalty to the CCP. In this paper\, I discuss meas
 ures introduced under the auspices of the NSL\, and how these have been 
 presented or justified by the local and national authorities. I argue th
 at Hong Kong’s cultural distinctiveness has in fact never been acknowled
 ged by Beijing\, and that this partly explains the chronic tension bedev
 illing Hong Kong-mainland relations.\n\nThe latest legal and educational
  measures go further than ever in delegitimating any conception of ‘Hong
 kongeseness’ as a distinctive form of Chineseness\, seeking instead to r
 epresent Hongkongers as sharing a monolithic Han identity. Rather than a
 ssuaging conflict and tension within Hong Kong society and with the main
 land authorities\, I suggest this is likely only to entrench and exacerb
 ate alienation and resentment.
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