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

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2008; ©2004
• Edizione: First paperback edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.25
• Soggetto geografico: Hong Kong (China) Politics and government 1997-; Hong Kong (China) History Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997
• Persona (resp. second.): Yiu-chung Wong; BridgesBrian
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: "One country, two systems" in crisis
• ISBN: 0-7391-3036-6; 1-299-79565-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790943203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II