The Challenge of Hong Kong's Reintegration with China

The Challenge of Hong Kong's Reintegration with China
Author: Ming K. Chan
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1997-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789622094413

The seven essays in this volume address some of the critical issues underlining the process of Hong Kong's reintegration with China. In reviewing the drastic changes in Hong Kong since the mid-1980s, the authors provide multi-disciplinary perspectives to articulate the major institutions and forces that shape the interaction between Beijing and Hong Kong and help to define the challenges ahead.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong
Author: Michael Yahuda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317761626

The return of Hong Kong to China in July 1997 has the potential to benefit China's rapidly expanding economy. China's handling of the transition will have enormous implications for her international standing. This is the first study to analyse the serious problems and real opportunities that the return of the colony poses to China's international status. Examining the relationships between Greater China, Hong Kong and the West, Hong Kong: China's Challenge explores the challenges that Chinese policy makers face up to 1997 and beyond: the clash of political cultures; handling problematic negotiations; dealing with conflicting economic interests. The book concludes by suggesting that a laissez faire approach to the lucrative Hong Kong markets will ensure that China harnesses the full political and economic benefits of sovereignty over the colony.

Keeping Democracy at Bay

Keeping Democracy at Bay
Author: Suzanne Pepper
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742508774

This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Exploring the interplay between colonial, capitalist, communist, and democratic forces in shaping Hong Kong's political institutions and culture, Suzanne Pepper offers a fresh perspective on the territory's development and a gripping account of the transition from British to Chinese rule. The author carries her narrative forward through the lives of significant figures, capturing the personalities and issues central to understanding Hong Kong's political history. Bringing a balanced view to her often contentious subject, she places Hong Kong's current partisan debates between democrats and their opponents within the context of China's ongoing search for a viable political form. The book considers Beijing's increasing intervention in local affairs and focuses on the challenge for Hong Kong's democratic reformers in an environment where ultimate political power resides with the communist-led mainland government and its appointees.

Hong Kong in China

Hong Kong in China
Author: Gungwu Wang
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

The dramatic handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China on July 1, 1997, amid much tension and speculation, closes one significant colonial chapter in Asia. At the same time, it also sets the stage for new political and economic possibilities with China closely involved with a key financial center in Asia. Hong Kong in China comprises a collection of papers evaluating the situation in Hong Kong SAR over the last two years. The handing over of Hong Kong to China presents a challenge to the legal system which is intrinsically and delicately linked to the political vision of one country, two systems. While politicians and legalists seek to work out the model, the people of Hong Kong confront the dilemma of an identity crisis, on top of the contentious social problems presented by the immigration of Chinese mainlanders.

Hong Kong Reintegrating with China

Hong Kong Reintegrating with China
Author: Pui-tak Lee
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9622095119

This comprehensive book provides a multi-dimensional analysis of Hong Kong's development, and her political, socio-economic and cultural relations with China.

Understanding China's Legal System

Understanding China's Legal System
Author: C. Stephen Hsu
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780814736531

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Political Development in Hong Kong

Political Development in Hong Kong
Author: Ngok Ma
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9622098096

This book reviews the political development of Hong Kong before and after 1997, in particular the evolution of state-society relations in the last two decades, to analyze the slow development of democracy and governance in Hong Kong after 1997. This book is a most comprehensive analysis of the multi-faceted changes in Hong Kong in the last 20 years. The scope of changes analyzed included state functions and institutions, political changes such as party development and development of the Legislative Council, and social changes such as social movements, civil liberties, etc. It helps the reader understand the crisis of governance of Hong Kong after 1997, and the difficulty of democratic development in Hong Kong over the years. The book covers: changing state institutions in Hong Kong in the last few decades; party development in Hong Kong; the changing role and function of the legislature in Hong Kong; the evolution of social movement and movement organizational forms; media freedom, civil liberties, and the role of civil society; and theoretical discussions concerning governance problems and state-society relations in Hong Kong. Special emphasis is placed on how these changes brought about a new state-society relation, which in turn brought governance difficulties after 1997.

Identity in Community

Identity in Community
Author: Paul Kwong
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3643900783

The term ContactZone was coined in postcolonial discourse to signify the place where cultures and religions meet. It implies that first contact, cultural-religious exchange and conflict have always been determined by power-relations. Through making use of communication theories, hermeneutics and aesthetics intercultural theology generates new terminologies and theoretical tools to explore these interactions. Its scope ranges from issues such as dialogue and syncretism to fundamentalism and ethnicity. Perspectives of culture, religion, race, class and gender alike are involved in the necessary multi-axial approach. ContactZone is going to create a space where a choir of multiple voices is responding to the challenges of the cultural religious pluralism of the 21st century. Archbishop Paul Kwong (* 1950) develops the idea of "identity in community" as central to the mission and theological agenda of Christians in Hong Kong. In a wide-ranging multidisciplinary study, he analyzes diverse perspectives on the territory's recent history and compares the methodological approaches of local theologians with contextual theologies from other parts of the world. He argues that the overlapping cultural and religious identities of Christians in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China can empower Hong Kong people to embrace rather than to exclude differences and otherness, so that they can accept and live out our their identities in community without having to make a choice for one among the many.

Hong Kong in Transition

Hong Kong in Transition
Author: Robert Ash
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134423896

This book offers a perspective on the constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a substantial period under Chinese rule.

Uneasy Partners

Uneasy Partners
Author: Leo F. Goodstadt
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789622097339

Challenging the wisdom about the way capitalism and colonialism joined forces to transform Hong Kong into one of the world's great cities, this book deploys case studies of the clash of interests between alien colonials and their Chinese constituents and the conflict between a pro-business government and its political and social responsibilities.