RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1977 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/np198x23n 124 GREGORY E. GULDIN We Fujianese are conservative and don't just start talking or making friends with strangers. Anyway, you'll only meet your best friends through already close friends or relatives or "tong xiang". This ethnic feeling of separateness (as well as the reality of separation) has led to the emergence in Little Fujian of what Milton Gordon (1964:30) has called an "ethnic sub-societal network" that enables Fujianese to form nearly all of their solidary and stable relations—relatives, friends, and neighbors—with Southern Fujianese like themselves. Furthermore, even the characteristically unidimensional and fleeting nature of many urban roles (Southall 1973: 82) turns out to have a remarkable ethnic coloration in Little Fujian, as witness social interaction in the Chun Yeung Street market, for example, where shopkeepers, clerks and customers are all Fujianese. In North Point, because of patterns of ethnic selection and preference, these roles are at the same time both unidimensional and ethnic. Little Fujian: Sub-Neighborhood and Community Ethnically-significant patterns do then exist among the Fujianese of North Point. Does this in itself qualify North Point's Little Fujian as a community? Some sociologists suggest that residential segregation is crucial to the maintenance of ethnic community or solidarity (Joy 1972; Lieberson 1970) but Drieger and Church (1947:30) have rightly criticized this unidimensional insistence on residential segregation as too crude a diagnostic. Unfortunately, they too propose (1974:36) a crude diagnostic that of the ethnic percentage of a neighborhood's population. A better approach would be the realization that a sense of community is not automatically reached when the actual ethnic population counters reach a certain total but when the intensity of ethnic social interaction reaches a point that it gives an overall ethnic flavoring to the social interaction of a specific group. Enveloped in the substantially ethnically-enclosed networks of Little Fujian, the Fujianese of North Point without doubt live in such a social reality. A quick analytical divorce between the concepts of “neighborhood" and "community” is also imperative; “ethnic neighborhood” (or "ethnic sub-neighborhood” if need be) should refer to a spatially segregated or clustered resident population while “ethnic community”... ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1977 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/np198x23n 128 GREGORY E. GULDIN REFERENCES CITED Amyot, Jacques 1973 The Manila Chinese, Quezon City, R.P.: Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila Univ. Charsley, S. R. 1974 "The Formation of Ethnic Groups." In Urban Anthropology. A. Cohen, (ed.). Pp. 337-68. London: Tavistock Publications. Department of Census and Statistics, Hong Kong Government 1966 By-Census. Hong Kong. 1971 Census Report. Hong Kong. 1975 Census Update. Hong Kong. Drieger, Leo and Glenn Church 1974 "Residential Segregation and Institutional Completeness: A Comparison of Ethnic Minorities." The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 11:1. Pp. 30-52. Fox, Richard G. 1977 Urban Anthropology: Cities in their Cultural Settings. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Freedman, Maurice 1958 Lineage Organization in Southeast China. LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology. London: The Athlone Press. Gordon, Milton 1964 Assimilation in American Life. New York. Guldin, Gregory E. 1977 Overseas at Home: The Fujianese of Hong Kong. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin Department of Anthropology. Madison, Wisconsin. Joy, Richard 1972 Languages in Conflict. Kuo Shou Hwa 1964 History of Hakka Chinese. Taipei, Taiwan. [in Chinese] Lam, Mickey 1967 Postwar Development of North Point. Unpublished Hong Kong University B.A. thesis. Univ. of Hong Kong Architecture Department. Li Yih-Yuan 1970 An Immigrant Town: Life in an Overseas Chinese Community in Southern Malaysia. Monograph Series B No. 1. Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Ethnology Academia Sinica. [in Chinese] Lieberson, Stanley 1970 Languages and Ethnic Relations in Canada, ================================================================================