| DEDICATION | 第3-4页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第6-9页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第9-16页 |
| Context | 第9-10页 |
| Research question | 第10-11页 |
| Methodology and theoretical approach | 第11-12页 |
| Literature Review | 第12-15页 |
| Defining Key Terms | 第15-16页 |
| Part Ⅰ:Internal factors affecting Hong Kong's identity | 第16-47页 |
| Ⅰ. HONG KONG'S POPULATION SETTLEMENT AND THE MODERNISATION OF THECITY AS FACTORS OF IDENTITY FORMATION | 第16-21页 |
| A) Hong Kong psyche as a result of immigration | 第17-18页 |
| B) An economic identification | 第18-21页 |
| Ⅱ. HONG KONG'S IDENTITY THROUGH A THEORETICAL LENS | 第21-38页 |
| A) Primordialism:an ethnosymbolic approach to national identity | 第21-24页 |
| ⅰ. Understanding primordialism | 第22页 |
| ⅱ. Hong Kong primordially linked to the Chinese nation | 第22-24页 |
| B) Modernism and Hong Kong: media discourse and State legitimisation | 第24-31页 |
| ⅰ. Explaining' Imagined Communities' | 第24-25页 |
| ⅱ. The importance of media and discourse | 第25-28页 |
| ⅲ. An apolitical society legitimised by the State | 第28-31页 |
| C) Towards a post-national explanation of the Hong Kong identity? | 第31-38页 |
| ⅰ. Belonging to the global market | 第32-34页 |
| ⅱ. Globalisation and multidimensional identity | 第34-38页 |
| Ⅲ. HONG KONG'S CURRENT POST-NATIONAL IDENTITY | 第38-47页 |
| A) Elements of modernism | 第38-39页 |
| B) Top down socialisation | 第39-47页 |
| ⅰ. National identity through education | 第40-42页 |
| ⅱ. National identity through the media | 第42-47页 |
| Part Ⅱ:Foreign influence,a key factor of Hong Kong's identity crisis | 第47-69页 |
| Ⅳ. THE BRITISH LEGACY FACTOR | 第47-58页 |
| A) The China Factor and the Joint Declaration | 第47-50页 |
| B) A drastic change in British colonial rule:introducing democratisation | 第50-54页 |
| C) The birth of several political parties as an answer to democratisation | 第54-58页 |
| Ⅴ. CONTEMPORARY HK,BACK TO NATIONAL ROOTS UNDER THE CLOSESUPERVISION OF WESTERN POWERS | 第58-69页 |
| A) A novel political engagement in contemporary politics | 第58-61页 |
| B) Hong Kong's traditional role as a mediator redefined by Western powers | 第61-69页 |
| ⅰ) An American press discourse encouraging Hong Kong's identity crisis | 第62-65页 |
| ⅱ. The European Union's pro democracy response to current debates | 第65-69页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第69-73页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第73-77页 |
