Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years [Paperback]

This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Well-known commentators from a variety of disciplines examine the issues and events in the years leading up to the transfer of sovereignty, and in the eighteen months that followed. Major dilemmas are addressed in the economic, political, legal, social and diplomatic life of the territory, which remain in many cases unresolved and pressing as Hong Kong enters the new century.Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: THE HONG KONG BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Hong Kong: The Business Environment in the New Special Administrative Region; E.V.Roberts & D.Petersen Changing Government-Business Relations and the Governance of Hong Kong; T.Ngo Hong Kong, China and the Handling of the Financial Crisis; P.Ferdinand Like Fish Finding Water: Economic Relations between Hong Kong and China; R.Ash Hong Kong and its Intermediate Role in Cross-Strait Economic Relations; T.Lin PART TWO: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Hong Kong under Chinese Sovereignty; A Preliminary Assessment; B.Hook Beijing's Fifth Column and the Transfer of Power in Hong Kong, 1983-1997; Y.Qian Power as Non-Zero Sum? Central-Local Relations between the Hong Kong SAR and Beijing; L.C.Li The Hong Kong Public Service in Transition: Sustaining Administrative Capacity and Administrative Neutrality; I.Scott Constitutional Dilemmas in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; P.Wesley-Smith Towards a Democratic Audit in Hong Kong: Some Issues and Problems; R.Porter PART THREE: SOCIAL DISCOURSE Reflections on the Hong Kong Discourse on Human Rights; S.Weigelin-Schwiedrzik Church-State Relations in the Transition: An Historical Perspective; B.Leung Migration and Identities in Hong Kong's Transition; J.Salaff PART FOUR: EXTERNAL RELATIONS: The External Relations of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; M.S.Neves IndexBEATRICE LEUNG Lingnan College, Hong KongLINDA CHELAN LI Department of Public and SociallC,