The Hong Kong Reader: Passage to Chinese Sovereignty

by Ming K. Chan, Gerard A. Postiglione

Overview

This paperback reader provides the student and general reader with easy access to the major issues of the Hong Kong transition crisis. Contributors include both editors, as well as Frank Ching, Berry F. Hsu, Reginald Yin-wang Kwok, Peter Kwong, Julian Y.M. Leung, Ronald Skeldon, Alvin Y. So, Yun-wing Sung, and James T.H. Tang - the majority of whom live and work in Hong Kong and experience the transition firsthand, personally and professionally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315488356
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Chan, Ming K.; Postiglione, Gerard A.; Chan, Ming K.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Hong Kong’s Uneasy Passage to Chinese Sovereignty, Ming K. Chan, Gerard A. Postiglione; Chapter 2 Democracy Derailed: Realpolitik in the Making of the Hong Kong Basic Law, 1985–1990, Ming K. Chan; Chapter 3 Balancing the Beijing–London–Hong Kong “Three-Legged Stool,” 1971–1986, James T.H. Tang, Frank Ching; Chapter 4 Judicial Development of Hong Kong on the Eve of 1 July 1997, Berry F. Hsu; Chapter 5 The Decolonization of Hong Kong Education, Gerard A. Postiglione; Chapter 6 Education in Hong Kong and China: Toward Convergence?, Julian Y.M. Leung; Chapter 7 Hong Kong in an International Migration System, Ronald Sheldon; Chapter 8 New York Is Not Hong Kong: The Little Hong Kong That Never Was, Peter Kwong; Chapter 9 Economic Integration of Hong Kong and Guangdong in the 1990s, Yun-wing Sung; Chapter 10 Socioeconomic Center, Political Periphery: Hong Kong’s Uncertain Transition Toward the Twenty-first Century, Alvin Y. So, Reginald Y. Kwok;