I identify with Hong Kong; this is why my senior thesis is what it is.

[intertribal]

Resistance is immanent to power in the sense that the power mechanism engenders its very own transgression.  it is commonplace to say that colonialism produces a compulsive attachment to national roots.  In Hong Kong's historical context, however, colonialism has shielded the Chinese people living in the city from chauvinistic and violent outbursts of patriotic feeling, such as the Cultural Revolution in mainland China during the 1960s and 1970s; colonialism also has allowed Hong Kong Chinese to take up an abstract nationalist cause without directly and collectively participating in sociopolitical movements or paying the heavy political price that their counterparts in the mainland and Taiwan must pay.

Tsui, in his reinvented Wong Fei-Hung series, manages to take advantage of Hong Kong's in-between position by letting nationalism and colonialism play against each other.

- Kwai-Cheung Lo: "Knocking Off Nationalism in Hong Kong Cinema: Woman and the Chinese 'Thing' in Tsui Hark's Films" in Camera Obscura