One Country, Two Systems In Crisis : Hong Kong's Transformation since the Handover
In the tumultuous negotiations of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, the United Kingdom willingly signed over Hong Kong's reigns to the People's Republic of China, but with the presupposition that the PRC would faithfully implement the principle of 'one country, two systems' for the following fifty years. Yet since the handover in 1997, the PRC has failed to allow Hong Kong a higher degree of autonomy. 'One Country, Two Systems' in Crisis elucidates how China's intervention has curtailed Hong Kong's civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how dece
eBook, English, 2008
Lexington Books, Lanham, 2008
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction Wong Yiu-chung; Part I: The Principle and Its Practice; 1 ""One Country"" and ""Two Systems"": Where Is the Line? Wong Yiu-chung; Part II: Political and Legal Changes; 2 Taking Stock of ""One Country, Two Systems"" Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan; 3 The Search for the Rule of Law in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 1997-2003 Anne S.Y. Cheung and Albert H.Y. Chen; Part III: State-Society Relationships; 4 The ""Right of Abode"" Issue: A Test Case of ""One Country, Two Systems"" Fung Ho-lup. 5 Catholic Church Relations with the Hong Kong SAR Government: The Paradigm Shift Beatrice K.F. Leung6 Governance in Education in Hong Kong: A Decentralizing or a Centralizing Path? Anita Y: K. Poon and Wong Yiu-chung; Part IV: Hong Kong and the Outside World; 7 Business as Usual? The European Union and Hong Kong after the Handover Brian Bridges; 8 An East-West Conundrum: Hong Kong in Between China and the United States after the Chinese Resumption of Sovereignty Ting Wai; 9 Compromise on Depoliticization: Post-1997 Hong Kong-Taiwan Ties under the Cross-Straits Conflict Timothy Ka- Ying Wong
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