Sino-British Relations As Reflected In Hong Kong Around The Establishment Of The New China And During The "Great Cultural Revolution

Hong Kong, formerly a British colony, was in a way a place that filly reflected all sorts of contradictions and compromises in the relations between China and Britain at the time around the establishment of the New China. Th.e wrestles between China and Britain over such incidents as the 揟wo Airlines Incident? 揟he Strengthening of Control over the Society?and the 揟a Kung Po Incident?were fierce on one hand but harmonious on the other. This article takes the various major social incidents in Hong Kong in the initial period of the Liberation as major topics for analyzing the way how China and Britain handled their differences and conflicts, Apart from studying the two countries? established policies, this article expounds on the changes and development in such policies along with the dynamic development of those social incidents. Besides, soon after the Liberation, a large number of well-known Chinese men of letters who settled down in Hong Kong before the Liberation, returned to China one after another to serve the new society. That had a tremendous impact on Hong Kong抯 culture. On the other hand, there were quite a few well-known intellectuals in China who went south to Hong Kong at the time of the Liberation and set off a new upsurge in Hong Kong 憇 culture. The New Asia College was founded at the end of 1949 by Chin Muk, Tong Kwari Ngai and other intellectuals who had moved to the south. This article makes a profound study and analysis of the changes in Hong Kong抯 culture in the initial period of the Liberation and thereby traced the track of its development amid the converging of Chinese and Western (US dollar) cultures. At the climax of the 揋reat Cultural Revolution?in 1967, a mighty 揝truggle against British Violent Repression?broke out in Hong Kong, resulting in an unprecedented crisis in Sino-British relations in mid-August-the setting of fire to the Office of British Charged?Affaires in Being by the masses of people under the instigation of Wang Li, a member of the 揅entral Cultural Revolution Group?.The incident was touched off by Hong Kong Government抯 closing down of three patriotic Hong Kong newspapers. This article narrates in details the interactive relations between the 揋reat Cultural Revolution?in China and the 揝truggle against British Violent Repression?in Hong Kong, how the inappropriate policies of Britain抯 Hong Kong authorities evoked serious social conflicts and how the authorities reacted to the 揝truggle against British Violent Repression?launched by the 揅entral Cultural Revolution Group? Moreover, it also makes a detailed analysis of the twisted and complicated natures of the conflict between China and Britain in Hong Kong and expounds in a dynamic manner the close link, and interaction between the social turbulence in hong Kong and the development in the situation in Chimi. In short, at the climax of the 揋reat Cultural Revolution?in I 967,Sino-l3ritish relations underwent in a way two extremely different stages of thorough breakup and sudden relaxation and such radical change in an opposite direction resulted precisely from the fierce struggle between two lines in China. Therefore, the clash between China and Britain was in a way closely linked with the struggle between two diplomatic lines in China This article gives a profound exposition in those respects. Besides, the 揅ultural Revolution?had a shocking impact on Hong Kong抯 cultural circle. Such impact was mainly c...