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| Title: | 剖析中國三角：中、港、台經濟向心力和政治離心力的動態分析=An anatomy of the Chinese Triangle : the dynamics of the economic centripetal and political centrifugal forces |
| Authors: | Xiao, Xinhuang (蕭新煌)
So, Alvin Y. (蘇耀昌) |
| Keywords: | South China
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Economic integration
Economic development
Guangdong
Fujian
Political development |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| Citation: | Hong Kong journal of social sciences, no. 12, p. 131-154, 1998 |
| Abstract: | By the late 1980s, South China, Taiwan and Hong Kong had experienced very rapid economic integration. This new South Chinese Triangle possesses the following distinguished features: state-societal disjuncture, intersitial spatial integration, asymmetrical socio-economic and political status, and contradictory unification forces. After characterizing the South China Triangle, this paper addresses the socio-political consequences of the economic integration in the form of massive investment in Guangdong and Fujian on both Hong Kong and Taiwan. How did economic integration transform state-business relationship, class conflict, identity politics and democratic struggles in Hong Kong and Taiwan? This paper further argues that although Hong Kong and Taiwan have shared a common pattern of economic nexus with South China, the socio-political impacts are quite different. In this respect, the new South China Triangle possesses the dynamics of both the economic centripetal force and the socio-political centrifugal force. Finally, this paper explains how these two forces have shaped and affected Hong Kong and Taiwan's prospects of 'unification' with China since the 1990s. |
| Rights: | We would like to give credit to the Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences for granting us permission to repost this article. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/2040 |
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