香港金紫荊廣場：身分認同爭議

Contesting Identities: Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong

本文以香港金紫荊廣場作為案例，分析空間物質性的經濟與政治，和人們對物質性空間的象徵意義的再創造、運用與消費；研究國家與民眾在廣場上的互動，探討地方的意義與身分認同的關係。本研究尤其關注1997年香港回歸中國後，政府如何通過地方建構來表述國家主義，替香港人凝造一種國家感和中國人身分認同；並且分析香港人如何挪用廣場，表述其複雜而矛盾的情緒和後殖民的身分認同的內容。

This paper examines the economic and the political aspects of the physical construction of space, as well as how people appropriate, consume, and recreate the meanings of material space. It investigates the power dynamics between people and government in the square. It analyzes the meaning of place, and its relationship to identities. This research also investigates how the government conveys nationalism through the place-making process, and constructs a sense of nationhood within China as a whole, hence promoting the Chinese national identity for Hong Kong people. It delineates the complex yet contradictory sentiment of the postcolonial identity through the examination of how Hong Kong people appropriate the square.