1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001874430203316

Autore

BUCKLEY, Roger

Titolo

The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945 / Roger Buckley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-521-00725-9

Descrizione fisica

X, 258 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

327.7305

Soggetti

Stati Uniti d'America Relazioni internazionali [con l']Asia

Collocazione

327.730 BUC 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453258703321

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

Electronic books.

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>



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698087703321

Titolo

Impact of gaps in health coverage on income security [[electronic resource] ] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, November 14, 2007

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. G.P.O., , 2008

Descrizione fisica

iii, 238 pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Medically uninsured persons - United States

Medically uninsured persons - United States - Economic conditions

Health insurance - Economic aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 3, 2009).

"Serial no. 110-65."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.