從菜園村重建經驗，
反省社區組織者的角色
From the experience of rebuilding New
Choi Yuen Village: Reflection on the role of
the community organizer
陳允中 YC Chen
Exco, Land Justice League
Associate Professor, Det. of Cultural Studies,
Lingnan University
Role Change
1. Who’s justice? Justice for villagers -->
justice for HK people (個案 →運動）
2. Who is our enemy? Indigenous people -> the collusion of Government-BusinessGentry-Triad (原居民→ 官商鄉黑)
3. Solidarity?: villager-urban supporter -->
villagers – surrounding villagers outsider –
urban supporters (文青 → 文青+鄰居）
4. Goal? : Material interest --> material —
ideological – spiritual （物質→ 物質 + 意識形態
+心靈）
Whose Justice?
1. Who’s justice? Justice for villagers -->
justice for HK people
 Protect Choi Yuen Village against force
eviction --> Anti-Express Rail Link Movement
(2009-2010)


Rebuilding the NEW Choi Yuen Village (2010-now)
One city two systems: the rise of rural
gentries (鄉坤) and HYK (鄉議局)
Latest: 66.9 billion Express Rail Link

Government:

Avoid isolation (island effect)

Provide 10,000 jobs

1 hour living circle in PRD

60 million PRD tourists
coming to WKCD
 Opposition:

Demolish Tsoi Yuen Tsuen (菜園村150 household affected)

Endanger the old buildings in old districts along the line

Low efficiency (white elephant)

Propose an alternative terminal in the New Territories

Alternative life-style: slow development / quality of life

New democracy: direct democracy + real democracy
Facebook + Youtube + posters +
Street Demonstration + Direct
Action

Youtube mobilization: abolish
“functional constituency” (廢除功能組別)
in LEGCO



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H221pA3ChKI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fktC6GbYIQ
Meditation Walk throughout the
city (苦行: 轉念：始於足下寸土)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtRDhruuvYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_DD7wmZgE
1000 supporters show solidarity with
Choi Yuen Village…
Choi Yuen Chuen 菜園村 &Tai Kwok Tsui 大角嘴 etc.
Reclaiming their right to the city: rural & urban residents vs the
Express Rail Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ2Xg1XGG58&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_DD7wmZgE
Live TV at the Public Square – exercising
common rights & public scrutiny
Making LEGCO
transparent
Democracy Fish-balls, Anti-Functional
Constituency Rice Dumplings, Universal
Suffrage Pudding, Militant Ginger Tea
Walk Slowly, Eat Slowly,
Make Love Slowly, Live Slowly
Reclaiming Public Transport Hubs…
Reclaiming the Imagination of the City
in the Age of Digital Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H221
pA3ChKI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oe5_qzwsQk&feature=related
Who is our enemy?
2. Who is our enemy? Indigenous people -> the collusion of GovernmentBusiness-Gentry-Triad (官商鄉黑)
One city two systems: rural gentries (鄉坤),
HYK (鄉議局) and triad (黑社會）
Collaborative Colonialism 
One City Two Systems

Collaborative colonialism continues after 1997 , thus
resulted in one country two systems (一城兩制)

Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and new towns of New Territories
are governed by SAR government.

Rural New Territories are governed by two parallel governments,
i.e. HYK and SAR government, with HYK being more dominant
than SAR government.

The patriarchal-feudal-triad (父權-封建-黑班)
embedded in the HYK governance system often
demonstrate a occasionally absence of “rule of law”
that is fundamental to the SAR government system.
Collaborative Colonialism 
One City Two Systems
 Without
decolonization, this hybrid system
encourage the exploitation of land and power
by the HYK gentries in the expenses of other
classes, namely the normal indigenous
members and non-indigenous members.
 This
is the background against which we can
understand the force eviction and demolition
of non-indigenous village in rural New
Territories that happens everyday without
much notice from the public.
Hierarchy among NT inhabitants
(1)鄉紳 Privileged indigenous inhabitant = rural
Gentries/members of the HYK (and its
retinue, including the triads), who were the
rural elites, and who obtained more benefits
than other ordinary indigenous inhabitants,
because of their role as collaborators of the
colonial government.
(2)原住民ordinary indigenous inhabitants who
owned farmland and obtained the prescribed
privileges from the government, but must act
according to the rural gentries’ plans;
(3)非原住民 the non-indigenous tenant farmers
or land owners who are often targeted for
sacrifice in face of land resumption;
Two type of force evictions

First type : Every day force eviction of nonindigenous inhabitant by the rural gentries who
are well connected with HYK.

Second type: HYK act as middleman to assist
government and developers in massive force
eviction for development project.
Collaborative Colonialism –
who get the bads?
 This
HYK-Gov collaboration contributes to the
decline of agricultural land and adversely
affected the lives of less privileged rural and
agricultural communities, especially the
non-indigenous members.
 This
is the background against which we can
understand

The current Northeast Development Plan,

The demolition of Choi Yuen Village, a nonindigenous village, to make way for the construction
of the China-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL).
Redefining winner and loser

Land resumption in New Territories are
unjust in nature because of the unfair
political systems



divided and rules (old colonial)
one country two systems (new colonial)
Result in clear winners and losers

The winners are the HYK and the rural gentries
who owns land and privileged information


They were also get construction contracts
The losers are non-indigenous inhabitant,
farmers, small business and the environment.

The are forced out of their land, home and jobs.
Role Change
1. Who’s justice? Justice for villagers -->
justice for HK people (個案 →運動）
2. Who is our enemy? Indigenous people -> the collusion of Government-BusinessGentry-Triad (原居民→ 官商鄉黑)
3. Solidarity?: villager-urban supporter -->
villagers – surrounding villagers outsider –
urban supporters (文青 → 文青+鄰居）
4. Goal? : Material interest --> material —
ideological – spiritual （物質→ 物質 + 意識形態
+心靈）