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While a relatively small portion of the population compared to the Cantonese majority, Shanghainese people and their descendants have had a tremendous influence on the economy of Hong Kong helping transform the colony from a trading outpost into a global manufacturing and shipping hub.
It is not just about the young people in Central’s office buildings speaking fluent foreign languages and living a Western lifestyle, but also about the traditional festivities with dragon and lion dances, as well as the enduring Cantonese culture.
There may be some elderly Shanghainese who only follow State media, or young Shanghainese who cannot speak Shanghainese who also are very Nationalistic, but the core belief in the Shanghainese identity is actually pro-Hongkong.
24 sie 2024 · Shanghainese people in Hong Kong have played an important role in the region, despite being a relatively small portion of the Han Chinese population. Shanghainese is a term that refers to both the Wu Chinese language and the Han Chinese subgroups from the city of Shanghai and the peoples of the Jian.
however, let us first familiarize ourselves with the contours of Hong Kong's ethnic universe. Shanghainese, Chao Zhou, Hakka, and other groups make their home in the colony, but without doubt Hong Kong is, ethnically and demographically speaking, a "Guangdongese world." A brief introduction to the ethnic world-
Kung Yan-sum, (born 1943 in Shanghai), is the younger brother of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, the former Asia's richest woman and the late chairman of Chinachem Group, one of the biggest privately held property developer in Hong Kong.
Shanghainese people in Hong Kong have played an important role in Hong Kong since 1949. Migration history. The flood of emigration of Shanghainese people, from Shanghai to Hong Kong began in 1937 with the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and grew as the Chinese Civil War resumed in 1946.
