% of Total
HK Population
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Fig. 3-Hong Kong and North Point Population by Place of Origin—19758
Place of Origin % of North Point Population % of Total HK Population Guang Zhou area 54% 46% Sae Yup 17% ... 82% 16% 69% Hong Kong, Macao area 5% ... Guangdongese9 1% ... Guangdongese9 ... Elsewhere in Guangdong 6% 6% Chao Zhou 10% 5% Shanghaiese (including Jiangsu and Zhejiang prov.) 3% 6% Fujianese 3% 18% Northern and Central Chinese (excluding Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and Shanghai) 1% 1% Others 2% 1% TOTAL 100% 100%Chinese led to the further expansion of the Fujianese sub-neighborhood across Tong Shui Road for the first time. Since then Little Fujian's explosive growth has slackened a bit although the last decade or so has seen the Fujianese move a block or two further east across Quarry Bay.
This intra-North Point history makes today's ethnic settlement pattern understandable. Figure 1 maps out the spatial distribution of both Fujianese and Shanghaiese in North Point and indicates the location of today's Little Fujian sub-neighborhood as well as the boundaries of the 1950s Little Shanghai area. As suggested by the over-lapping boundaries, Little Fujian has supplanted Little Shanghai as North Point's major sub-neighborhood. Indeed, we can even go so far as to maintain that Little Shanghai no longer exists in North Point as a distinct sub-neighborhood, although a diminished and outwardly directed sense of Shanghaiese community does persist. There are more to these ethnic enclaves though than a few street blocks; equally important are the social ties that bind a community together. Since the Shanghaiese community no longer centers in North Point let us turn to the Fujianese community of
% of Total
HK Population
118
GREGORY E. GULDIN
Fig. 3-Hong Kong and North Point Population by Place of Origin—19758
Place of Origin
% of North Point Population
Guang Zhou area
54%
46%
Sae Yup
17%
82%
16%
69%
Hong Kong, Macao area
5%
Guangdongese9 1%
Guangdongese9
Elsewhere in Guangdong
6%
6%
Chao Zhou
10%
5%
Shanghaiese (including
3%
6%
Jiangsu and Zhejiang
prov.)
Fujianese
3%
18%
Northern and Central
Chinese (excluding
Jiangsu and Zhejiang
provinces and
Shanghai)
1%
1%
Others
2%
1%
TOTAL
100%
100%
Chinese led to the further expansion of the Fujianese sub-neigh- borhood across Tong Shui Road for the first time. Since then Little Fujian's explosive growth has slackened a bit although the last decade or so has seen the Fujianese move a block or two further east across Quarry Bay.
This intra-North Point history makes today's ethnic settlement pattern understandable. Figure 1 maps out the spatial distribution of both Fujianese and Shanghaiese in North Point and indicates the location of today's Little Fujian sub-neighborhood as well as the boundaries of the 1950s Little Shanghai area. As suggested by the over-lapping boundaries, Little Fujian has supplanted Little Shanghai as North Point's major sub-neighborhood. Indeed, we can even go so far as to maintain that Little Shanghai no longer exists in North Point as a distinct sub-neighborhood, although a diminished and outwardly directed sense of Shanghaiese community does per- sist. There are more to these ethnic enclaves though than a few street blocks; equally important are the social ties that bind a com- munity together. Since the Shanghaiese community no longer centers in North Point let us turn to the Fujianese community of
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