Hong Kong in Transition
The Handover Years
Published on 5. June 2000
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-333-77267-6 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Commentators from a variety of disciplines examine the issues and events in the years leading up to the transfer of sovereignty, and in the 18 months that followed. Major dilemmas are addressed in the economic, political, legal, social and diplomatic life of the territory, which remain, in many cases, unresolved and pressing as Hong Kong enters the new century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, graphs, index
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 145 mm
Weight
751 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77267-6 (9780333772676)
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Persons
ROBERT ASH is Chiang Ching-kuo Professor of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where he has taught in the Department of Economics since 1975. He has published widely on economic issues affecting China and Greater China. Recent books include Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture and The Chinese Economy under Deng Xiaoping (both co-edited with Y.Y. Kueh). - PETER FERDINAND is Director of the Centre for Studies in Democratisation at the University of Warwick. Among his publications are Communist Regimes in Comparative Perspective (1991), The New Central Asia and its Neighbours (1994) and Take-off for Taiwan? (1996). - BRIAN HOOK is Emeritus Leverhulme Fellow, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hull, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. He was formerly the editor of the China Quarterly at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and has published widely on China and Hong Kong. - ROBIN PORTER is Director of the China Business and Policy Unit at Keele University. His publications include Reporting the News from China (ed. 1992), Industrial Reformers in Republican China (1994), The China Business Guide (with M.Robinson, 1994), and Management Issues in China (ed. with D.Brown, 1996).
Content
Preface - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - PART ONE: THE HONG KONG BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - Hong Kong: The Business Environment in the New Special Administrative Region; E.V.Roberts & D.Petersen - Changing Government-Business Relations and the Governance of Hong Kong; T.Ngo - Hong Kong, China and the Handling of the Financial Crisis; P.Ferdinand - Like Fish Finding Water: Economic Relations between Hong Kong and China; R.Ash - Hong Kong and its Intermediate Role in Cross-Strait Economic Relations; T.Lin - PART TWO: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS - Hong Kong under Chinese Sovereignty; A Preliminary Assessment; B.Hook - Beijing's Fifth Column and the Transfer of Power in Hong Kong, 1983-1997; Y.Qian - Power as Non-Zero Sum? Central-Local Relations between the Hong Kong SAR and Beijing; L.C.Li - The Hong Kong Public Service in Transition: Sustaining Administrative Capacity and Administrative Neutrality; I.Scott - Constitutional Dilemmas in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; P.Wesley-Smith - Towards a Democratic Audit in Hong Kong: Some Issues and Problems; R.Porter - PART THREE: SOCIAL DISCOURSE - Reflections on the Hong Kong Discourse on Human Rights; S.Weigelin-Schwiedrzik - Church-State Relations in the Transition: An Historical Perspective; B.Leung - Migration and Identities in Hong Kong's Transition; J.Salaff - PART FOUR: EXTERNAL RELATIONS: The External Relations of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; M.S.Neves - Index