"Hongkongness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From Hongkong + -ness. Etymology templates: {{af|en|Hongkong|-ness}} Hongkong + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Hongkongness (uncountable)
  1. The state or quality of belonging to or association with Hong Kong. Tags: uncountable
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          "text": "Like other heunggongyahn, they are fiercely proud of their Hongkongness, and a feeling of forced resignation called for a reproduction of another Hong Kong in another time-space.",
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          "ref": "2003, Ka-Ming Wu, “Discourse on Baau Yih Naai (Keeping Concubines): Questions of Citizenship and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong”, in Eliza W.Y. Lee, editor, Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy, Vancouver: UBC Press, →ISBN, page 135:",
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          "ref": "2011, Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 39:",
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