冷戰時期香港「教育條例」修訂與私立專上院校發展 (1948-1958)

After the success of the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, the British Hong Kong authority realized that it must adjust its policies to cope with the bipolar global system of the Cold War. To win hearts and minds in culture Cold War, the British Hong Kong authority revised the education ordinances thrice in 1948-1958, partly to stop the infiltration of Chinese Communist agents into the colony, and party to control private schools funded by the Guomindang and the Americans. The goal of these ordinance revisions was to strike a precarious balance between the two rivaling camps which were, in turn, an extension of the global competition between the Communist World and the Free World. Paradoxically, in implementing these revisions the British Hong Kong triggered more conflicts between the two camps, resulting in more social tensions and political controversies. In this paper, we will examine the purposes and implementations of these three revisions of education ordinances, using the revisions as a lens to gauge the complexity and fluidity of Cold War Hong Kong.