The Hong Kong Reader - Passage to Chinese Sovereignty

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, along with a range of specialist writers.

List 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;

About the author

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

Summary

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, along with a range of specialist writers.

Product details

• Authors: Ming K Chan, Ming K. Chan, Chan Ming K., Gerard A Postiglione, Gerard A. Postiglione
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.1996
• EAN: 9781563248702
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-870-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Hong Kong, Colonialism & imperialism, Political Economy, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements