Traditional hanfu

This maybe different from the hanfu(Chinese hanfu) the Chinese clothing traditional garment Chinese clothes, Asian clothes and oriental clothes other ethnic groups in China, most notably the Chinese clothing Manchurian influenced Chinese clothes, the Chinese clothing qipao, which is Chinese shirt or Chinese pants is cheongsam and qipao popularly assumed Chinese costume, Asian costume and oriental costume be the Chinese clothing solely recognizable style Chinese clothes, Asian clothes and oriental clothes “traditional” Chinese garb. 94 of Harvard East Asian monographs (2, reprint, illustrated ed.). Hong Kong industrialised rapidly from the mid-1950s to the 1990s when Hong Kong was dubbed one of the “Four Asian Tigers”. The pre-conditional “minimally-integrated socio-political system” in the post-war colony where the polity and the society are seen as mutually secluded and the Hong Kong people were allegedly more interested in family than in politics, turning always to their familial relatives for help, instead of making demands on the government.

It was stipulated that the third-rank officials and above wore green silk pao and shenyi, and the common people wore white linen pao during the Qin Dynasty. During the Ming dynasty, the yuanlingpao and yuanlingshan were also the most common form of attire for all genders, including officials and nobles. However, it currently continues to be worn as a common modern-day hanfu accessory by Hanfu enthusiasts since the Hanfu movement and can appear in various styles and materials. In the wake of the rise of the liberal lobby which demanded a faster democratisation, mamian skirt the conservative bloc formed the Business and Professional Group of the Basic Law Consultative Committee and the Group of 89 led by tycoon Vincent Lo in 1986 to counter the liberal movement. However the compromise model divided the group between the one who favoured compromise and the ones who favoured the pro-Beijing model put forward by the New Hong Kong Alliance (NHKA).

The New Asia College which was established in 1949 by a group of anti-communist mainland scholars including Ch’ien Mu and Tang Chun-i also attempted the promote the Confucian teachings and Chinese traditional values. Besides funding the conservative Chinese cultural institutions such as the New Asia College and the Yale-China Association, the United States also encouraged and took advantage of the anti-Communist activities of the Kuomintang. The business elites were concerned about the potential tax increases which might have been introduced by a democratic legislature to fund an expansion of the social budget, fiscal conservatism became an integral feature of the Basic Law, which writes the SAR “shall follow the principle of keeping the expenditure within the limits of revenues in drawing up its budget, and strive to achieve a fiscal balance, avoid deficits and keep the budget commensurate with the growth rate of its gross domestic product” as written in Article 107, reflecting Beijing’s and business bloc’s interest in having a politically and economically conservative Hong Kong. During the 1950s, the Third Force was created by the Central Intelligence Agency as an anti-communist movement of Chinese, which posed a problem for the British authorities, who although ideologically aligned with the United States to keep Hong Kong non-Communist, had officially recognised the Chinese Communist regime in 1950 and were highly sensitive about provoking Beijing.

To facilitate its governance of the colonised, the colonial government helped consolidate the gentry’s power to preserve conservative cultural values in the wake of progressive movements about Chinese nationalism such as the May Fourth Movement in 1919 and the subsequent New Culture Movement in the 1920s in China. In 1927, the University of Hong Kong established a Chinese department which helped form the Chinese curriculum to be used in Hong Kong schools. During the Canton-Hong Kong strike in 1925-26 which was directed by the Kuomintang government in Canton, Chinese elites, including Legislative Council unofficial members R. H. Kotewall and Shouson Chow, actively advised and helped coordinate counterstrike efforts. Conservative rural leaders, business elites, film production companies including the Shaw Brothers and Cathay Studios and the media, including Chinese newspapers Sing Tao Daily, Wah Kiu Yat Po and Kung Sheung Daily News and English newspaper South China Morning Post, also largely supported the British colonial government or the Kuomintang government in Taiwan until the 1980s. They joined hand in condemning the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist riots instigated by the pro-Communist elements in the colony.