Louise Ho’s Poems Will Be Explored in a Way to Understand the Emotion of People in Respect of the 1997 Handover and the Activity Performed --Emigration-- Resulting from the Anguish of the Changeover.

Louise Ho’s Poems Will Be Explored in a Way to Understand the Emotion of People in Respect of the 1997 Handover and the Activity Performed --Emigration-- Resulting from the Anguish of the Changeover.

  • Submitted By: morganpl
  • Date Submitted: 01/11/2009 6:00 AM
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Anything happened in the past is regarded as history. Art in particular literary text can apparently record human experience namely the ideology people perceive, the psychological statue of people toward the contemporary politics, the social activity people commit and even the individuals emotion at a certain point of time in the past. (Kerr lecture notes, 2006) In other words, literary writing in a certain extent mirrors the society in the past. In view of Hong Kong history, the remarkable events such as the marching involving 1 million protesters in response to Tiananmen and the change of sovereignty in 1997 have an ample impact on the literary writing in Hong Kong. In this paper, literary text in Hong Kong in particular Louise Ho’s poems will be explored in a way to understand the emotion of people in respect of the 1997 handover and the activity performed --emigration-- resulting from the anguish of the changeover. An introduction of Hong Kong and China history in terms of politics will be given as a background to better understand Hong Kong people’s fear of the communist Party of China. Louise Ho’s “Living on the Edge of Mai-Po nature Reserve” will then be analyzed to comprehend the uneasiness of Hong Kongers due to the approaching sovereignty of China over Hong Kong. Finally, “Hong Kong at the Crossroad” will be discussed how it reflects the people’s activity back on the eve of 1997.

Hong Kong and China have always been on a divergent path in terms of political regime since 1949. For Mainland China, upon the establishment of the People’s Republic China (PRC) in 1949, it has been following the Communist Party rule under which capitalists were forced to flee to Hong Kong. Not long after the first flee of political persecution, there appeared another flee of intellectuals to Hong Kong. It was due to the “Mao’s strategy to stave off capitalist restoration with his last great mass campaign, the Cultural Revolution.” (Pepper, 1997, p.156) These two phases...

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