Cathay Pacific’s shifting shareholder base underscores the dynamic interactions between the state and the market in an ever-changing geopolitical landscape. Focusing on its later transformation from a British airline, this article explores how Cathay Pacific refashioned its shareholding to respond to the shifting political climate of Hong Kong. In the protracted process through which Britain yielded jurisdictional power of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China, Cathay Pacific responded preemptively, first by enhancing its local profile, and then by appealing to economic nationalism of the sovereign state poised to take charge. The privately owned airline fashioned its corporate nationality in a bid to negotiate with political forces that affected its business development. The case of Cathay Pacific demonstrates how, in the absence of warfare, companies still need to mitigate political risks in a fluid geopolitical setting. By modifying its shareholding, Cathay Pacific crafted its corporate nationality, which proved instrumental in allaying political risks and managing business relationship with the state. The airline’s strategy attests to its dexterity as well as the pliability of the notion of “corporate nationality,” winning management the “license to operate”—legitimacy and state sponsorship—during a period of swift geopolitical shifts.

This essay explores the queer literary modernism of Hong Kong and Singapore since the 1990s to
make several interventions. While the two cities have been studied as exemplars of postcolonial
state formation in which finance capitalism contributes to the rise of modernity, their queer
modernism in the literary and cultural spheres has largely escaped comparative studies. To
address this blind spot, I examine two literary texts of gay male urbanism, namely Bryan Yip’s
2003 Hong Kong queer novel, Suddenly Single and Johann S. Lee’s 1992 coming-of-age queer
Singaporean novel, Peculiar Chris, as cases of “queer vernacularism.” Specifically, Yip and Lee’s
queer vernacular modernism—especially their references to Hong Kong and Singaporean popular
culture, urban space, and soundscapes of modernity—altogether exceeds the familiar boundary
of queer transnationalism and actualizes other modes of minor transnational desire. This essay
concludes with a brief analysis of Yonfan’s 1995 Hong Kong film Bugis Street, which visualizes the
bygone past of Singapore’s 1950–1970s sexual utopia and transgender imaginary.

This article reframes China's Reform era by highlighting China's expanding ties to global capitalism through Hong Kong in the 1970s. It demonstrates that the British colony was a hub of commercial activities that were reconnecting the People's Republic of China (PRC) with the global economy before 1978, from renewed Sino-US trade and the importation of foreign technology to compensation trade ventures and the distribution of international publications. These activities and warming Sino-US relations convinced elite Hong Kong executives that substantial economic reforms were coming to the PRC. As a result, throughout the 1970s, the multinational corporate community connected with Hong Kong's American Chamber of Commerce actively prepared for future opportunities by studying the PRC's economic and legal systems and cultivating both PRC and US officials. The article concludes by showing how these pre-1978 activities molded China's post-1978 efforts to pursue export-driven development.

By 2036, about 31% of Hong Kong’s population will be 65 or above. This situation triggers the need for an Age-Friendly City framework (AFC) to promote healthy ageing. In this paper, we present a study on how conscious and collaborative interventions affect the public’s perception of various AFC domains and the implications for health-related well-being over time in Hong Kong’s Islands District. As part of a territory-wide project, the study used a repeated cross-sectional design to gather data among older persons in 2016 and 2018. Findings showed significant improvements in five of the AFC domains after the interventions. Although health-related well-being was lower in 2018 than in 2016, perceived improvements in AFC domains, including community support and health services, social participation, respect and social inclusion as well as the overall AFC index were positively associated with health-related well-being. Thus, even in the face of declining health, the enhanced forms of certain AFC domains might improve the health-related well-being of older persons. The findings are discussed within the broader theoretical debate on ecological ageing. Implications for community-led social care are drawn.

We identify a missing narrative about the place of whiteness in post-colonial Hong Kong. Using an anthropological framework developed by Mary Douglas, we show how white migrants who try to integrate their children into local Cantonese medium of instruction schools are challenged by recurring obstacles that highlight their whiteness and signal them as ‘matter out of place’ by transgressing colonial assumptions about whiteness in the territory. In adopting this framework, we reorient the current focus of whiteness studies away from examining the strategies and performances employed by white migrants in the production of whiteness to the regulation of whiteness by the social order. By identifying the absence of an appropriate narrative for these parents in the local education system, we highlight not just the continuity of colonial constructs of whiteness, but also the constraints upon those who try to escape them.