Talk:Shanghainese people in Hong Kong

Serious expansion needed
This section seriously needs a major expansion. Really. Because the Shanghainese played an extremely prominent role in shaping modern Hong Kong's economy. Hong Kong's economy wouldn't be what it is today if it hadn't been for the mass flight of middle and upper class Chinese from the Jiangnan area to Hong Kong at the end of the Chinese Civil War. Many of the fleeing industrialists and capitalists fled to Hong Kong, where their wealth provided much of the capital for Hong Kong's economy. --Yuje 09:20, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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Shanghainese people in Hong Kong have played an important role in the region since 1949. "Shanghainese" is a term used to refer to the Han Chinese subgroups not just from the city of Shanghai but also of the peoples of the Jiangnan (Lower Yangtze Delta) region in Hong Kong more broadly, particularly those with ancestral homes in parts of southern Jiangsu (Kiangsu) and Anhui and northern Zhejiang (Chekiang) province. While a relatively small portion of the population compared to the Cantonese majority, Shanghainese people have had a tremendous influence on the economy of Hong Kong, helping transform the colony into a global commercial hub.

Sources which have an explicit list of individuals which belong to this category:
 * Run Run Shaw
 * Pao Yue-kong
 * Peter Woo Kwong-ching
 * Tung Chao-yung
 * Tung Chee-hwa
 * Henry Tang Ying-yen
 * Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor
 * Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai
 * Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun
 * Joseph Sung Jao-Yiu
 * Charles Kao Kuen

Text from Category:Shanghinese emigrants to Hong Kong
Emigrants from Shanghai and nearby regions in Jiangnan as seen in this article: "For the first time Hong Kong saw a robust inflow of people from outside Canton, many of whom were businessmen from Shanghai, who fled communist rule after they were tagged as members of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie and their homes and assets confiscated. British Hong Kong became their port of refuge.

Together with their business acumen, Shanghai tycoons and small factory owners marshaled their capital southward, and in the next decade they gained their footing in Hong Kong when the territory took flight as an emerging manufacturing base for textiles, toys and other light industries since the early 1960s.

In the following decades business gurus from Shanghai and its neighboring urban centers like Ningbo, Suzhou and Wuxi scaled new heights in Hong Kong.

Ningbo-born Sir Run Run Shaw moved his family’s film operations from Shanghai to Hong Kong before the Japanese invasion and founded the Shaw Brothers Studio and subsequently TVB.

So did Shaw’s townsman Pao Yue-kong (包玉剛) who went to Hong Kong in 1949, having managed to remit much of the family's assets and money from Shanghai before events made that impossible.

Pao later inaugurated his shipping empire and became Hong Kong’s richest man in the 1980s as the territory’s first businessman of truly international stature.

Pao’s son-in-law Peter Woo Kwong-ching later became chairman of Wharf Holdings and Wheelock & Co. Shipping magnate Tung Chao-yung was also from Shanghai, whose elder son Tung Chee-hwa became the city’s first chief executive post 1997."



"Although the standard line in cinema history books published in China states that Hong Kong cinema only produced ' national defence movies ' as a result of the infusion of Shanghai émigrés such as Cai Chusheng, Tang Xiaodan, Su Yi (蘇怡), Situ Huimin" ..

"The majority were Mandarin movies directed by and starring ex Shanghai luminaries such as Zhu Shilin, Yue Feng, Wang Yin, Butterfly Wu, Zhou Xuan, Yuan Meiyun (all of whom had worked in Shanghai during the 'Orphan Island' days and through the Pacific War) ..."

--Prisencolin (talk) 22:53, 11 March 2021 (UTC)