侯汝華在中國現代文學論著裏，只是一個不被注意的名字，作為李金髮的學習者、及現代派青年詩人群中的一員。香港學者回顧二十世紀三十年代的香港詩壇，發現了侯汝華的活躍，又熱切提高他的文學地位，即使其香港作家的身分後來受到質疑。本文主要處理兩個問題：一是以《紅豆》為代表的香港文壇對侯汝華詩風轉變及廁身現代派重要詩人隊列的作用；二是香港學者對侯汝華身分被質疑的回應，引伸出來對於香港文學主體性的迷思。本文認為，香港學者熱衷於侯汝華研究，顯示出對香港文學被遺忘的焦慮，他們採用的各種論述策略，乃在於抵抗遺忘。侯汝華能否成為不能繞過的作家，固然為論者關注；然他們心之所繫的，更是香港文學的主體性及意義會否被遺忘。

As a neglected literati among the discourses of modern Chinese literature, Hau Ruhua is simply considered a follower of Li Jinfa and one of the young modernist poets. Reviewing the poetry world in Hong Kong in the 1930s, many Hong Kong scholars unveil the activity of Hau Ruhua and manage to promote him to a higher position in the literary world, despite his reputation as a Hong Kong writer is being jeopardized afterward. There are two major focuses of this article: 1) the impact that, starting from poetry magazines, such as Red Bean, the Hong Kong literary world made on the changes of poetry style of Hau Ruhua and the process of determining Hau Ruhua as an important member of modernist poets; 2) the sophistication of the subjectivity of Hong Kong literature led by the response to the doubt about Hau Ruhua’s identity. I suggest that the enthusiasm of Hong Kong scholars for the Hau Ruhua study project indicates the anxiety of the Hong Kong literature being neglected. Various discursive strategies are applied in order to resist the oblivion. Although many scholars focus on whether Hau Ruhua is an unignorable writer, the major concern of them actually is whether the subjectivity and the meaning of Hong Kong literature are being neglected.