eprintid: 10149374 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/14/93/74 datestamp: 2022-05-30 11:03:47 lastmod: 2022-05-30 11:03:47 status_changed: 2022-05-30 11:03:47 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Vickers, Edward creators_name: Morris, Paul title: Accelerating Hong Kong's reeducation: 'mainlandisation', securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law ispublished: pub divisions: B14 divisions: J80 divisions: B16 divisions: UCL keywords: Social Sciences, Education & Educational Research, Hong Kong, China, the national security law, securitisation, mainlandisation, internal colonisation, INTERNAL COLONIZATION note: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. abstract: Whilst Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 has influenced education in various ways, major reforms perceived as promoting mainland control have been resisted. For two decades, Hong Kong’s educational autonomy under the ‘one country, two systems’ formula was thus largely maintained. This changed radically with the response to the protests of 2019–2020, culminating in the introduction of a National Security Law. This has drastically constrained Hong Kong’s civil society, enhanced central government control of education and accelerated efforts to reeducate Hongkongers as loyal PRC citizens. We trace how this transformation has been enacted and justified, and reflect on its consequences. We analyse the current situation through the lenses of ‘internal colonialism’ and securitisation, which have characterised governance of China’s restive periphery under Xi Jinping. We argue that analytical perspectives in Comparative Education, relating to postcolonialism/decolonisation and globalisation, obstruct or distort understanding of Hong Kong’s present predicament. date: 2022-03-13 date_type: published publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2022.2046878 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1946029 doi: 10.1080/03050068.2022.2046878 lyricists_name: Morris, Paul lyricists_id: PMORR36 actors_name: Morris, Paul actors_id: PMORR36 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Comparative Education volume: 58 number: 2 pagerange: 187-205 pages: 19 citation: Vickers, Edward; Morris, Paul; (2022) Accelerating Hong Kong's reeducation: 'mainlandisation', securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law. Comparative Education , 58 (2) pp. 187-205. 10.1080/03050068.2022.2046878 <https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2022.2046878>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149374/1/Vickers%20Morris%20HK%20CE%20article.pdf