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Project Title and Description

Representing Hong Kong Identity in newspapers: A corpus-based study of ‘Hongkonger’, 2001-2020

For a long time, Hong Kong is widely recognised as a melting point: a mixture of traditional Chinese culture and Western culture; a juncture of capitalism and communism, and moreover, a point of interaction between the Chinese national identity and the local Hong Kong identity. However, the interaction between these components is not as harmonious as it presents, clashes do exist. And among all these aspects, the conflict between the Chinese national identity and the local Hong Kong identity is the most visible one. This research examines the representations of Hongkonger identity in the newspapers with different orientations from 2001 to 2020, a period that numbers of pivotal incidents occurred. It involves qualitative discourse analysis of selected press data and quantitative corpus analysis and in-depth interview. By adopting a post-colonial perspective, this research aims to explore the Hongkonger identity construction and the role of the media in constructing and reflecting the identity. 

Research Interests

• Media and Representation
• Hong Kong Culture
• Postcolonial Studies
• Gender Studies 

Authored book

• SIO, Ka I (2013). The Good Old Days: Memories of Colonial Macau and Hong Kong （《戀殖世紀：港澳殖民印記》）. Hong Kong: Up Publication.

Book review

• SIO, Ka I (2021). Theory, Method and Practice in Media Discourse: A Corpus-based Study of Low-Carbon in Chinese, UK and US Media. Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives 7: 102-105.

Journal Article

• CHAN, Saul U Wai & SIO, Ka I (2019). The Reconstruction of Macau People's Identity through Economic Nationalism. Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, No. 53(Spring/Summer 2019).