Hong Kong in Transition: One Country, Two Systems

by Hook; Brian

• ISBN13: 9780415299541
• ISBN10: 0415299543
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-13
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Hong Kong in Transitionoffers a perspective on the exceptional constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a substantial period under Chinese rule. There have been both successes and failures, and a perceptible process of change which is important to document. The particular appeal of this volume lies in the fact that it combines a broad overview with detailed study of individual topics. It is multidisciplinary, and its chapters may be read as 'stand-alone' studies or taken as complementary parts of a whole snapshot of Hong Kong in this critical early period. The chapters are pitched at a level to make them accessible both to undergraduates and to the specialist. Contributors have been drawn from Hong Kong, Macau, the UK, the US, Australia and Germany, reflecting the international interest in the fate of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
List of contributors	xi
List of abbreviations	xiv
Introduction	1	(10)
PART I The Hong Kong business environment	11	(52)
The Hong Kong business environment since 1997	13	(21)
David Petersen
Elfed Vaughan Roberts
Public opinion and economic intervention in Hong Kong: an emerging dilemma	34	(15)
Newman M. K. Lam
Hong Kong and the currency board system: a model for a globalizing world?	49	(14)
Peter Ferdinand
PART II Government and politics	63	(84)
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: a mid-term assessment	65	(16)
Brian Hook
The evolving political culture of the Hong Kong SAR	81	(16)
Robin Porter
The dynamics of compensatory politics in Hong Kong	97	(14)
Ming K. Chan
The administrative performance and the 2000 LegCo elections	111	(14)
Joseph Y. S. Cheng
Legitimacy and leadership: public attitudes in post-British Hong Kong	125	(22)
Michael E. Degolyer
PART III Law and legality	147	(46)
The impact of the Chinese criminal law in Hong Kong	149	(12)
H. L. FU
Judicial autonomy under Hong Kong's Basic Law	161	(14)
Peter Wesley-Smith
Can courts in Hong Kong examine the constitutionality of the legislative conduct of the PRC?	175	(18)
Laifan Lin
Mingkang Gu
PART IV Journalism and the media	193	(33)
Hong Kong press freedom in transition	195	(15)
Heike Holbig
Hong Kong press coverage of China-Taiwan cross-straits tension	210	(16)
Anne S. Y. Cheung
Conclusion	226	(3)
Index	229