One Country, Two Systems in Crisis Hong Kong's Transformation since the Handover

by Yiu-chung, Wong; Bridges, Brian; Chen, Albert H.Y.; Y. Cheung, Anne S.; Ho-lup, Fung; Chan, Kenneth Ka-loh; Leung, Beatrice K.F.; Poon, Anita Y. K.; Wai, Ting; Wong, Timothy Ka-ying

• ISBN13: 9780739104927
• ISBN10: 0739104926
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-18
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Wong Yiu-chung
Part I: The Principle and Its Practice
1 "One Country" and "Two Systems": Where Is the Line?	9	(26)
Wong Yiu-chung
Part II: Political and Legal Changes
2 Taking Stock of "One Country, Two Systems"	35	(26)
Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan
3 The Search for the Rule of Law in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 1997-2003	61	(36)
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"	97	(16)
Fung Ho-lup
5 Catholic Church Relations with the Hong Kong SAR Government: The Paradigm Shift	113	(24)
Beatrice K.P. Leung
6 Governance in Education in Hong Kong: A Decentralizing or a Centralizing Path?	137	(30)
Anita Y.K. Poon and Wong Ku-chung
Part IV: Hong Kong and the Outside World
7 Business as Usual? The European Union and Hong Kong after the Handover	167	(20)
Brian Bridges
8 An East-West Conundrum: Hong Kong in Between China and the United States after the Chinese Resumption of Sovereignty	187	(22)
Ting Wai
9 Compromise on Depoliticization: Post-1997 Hong Kong-Taiwan Ties under the Cross-Straits Conflict	209	(24)
Timothy Ku-Ying Wong
Index	233	(10)
About the Contributors	243