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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790943203321

Titolo

"One country, two systems" in crisis : Hong Kong's transformation since the handover / / edited by Wong Yiu-chung ; contributors, Brian Bridges [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2008

©2004

ISBN

0-7391-3036-6

1-299-79565-X

Edizione

[First paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

951.25

Soggetti

Hong Kong (China) Politics and government 1997-

Hong Kong (China) History Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

IndexAbout the Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>'One Country, Two Systems' in Crisis elucidates how China's intervention in Hong Kong after the British handover in 1984 has curtailed Hong Kong's civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how deception has turned the 'Pearl of the Orient' into the rubber stamp of the Chinese Communist Party.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>