The Politics of Hong Kong's Reversion to China

Hong Kong's reunification with China presents China with a great challenge: to preserve the prosperity and stability that Hong Kong has achieved under the British legacy of a democratic free-enterprise system and an efficient but noninterfering government. China aims to successfully link its own traditionally socialist economy and communist political system with Hong Kong under a 'one country-two-systems' plan. Cultural and historical forces suggest that this marriage of opposites may well succeed.

Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Joint Declarations on Hong Kong and Macao The Stationing of Chinese Forces in Hong Kong Safe Haven, Visas, and the Right of Abode British Implementation of the JD and Basic Law Chinese Implementation of the JD and Basic Law Political Developments in Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) and Human Rights Prospects for the Unification of China Notes Chronology Appendix: The Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong and Related Documents Index

DAVID WEN-WEI CHANG is University Rosebush Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and former Senior Fulbright Visiting Professor at the People's University in Beijing, China, 1992-93. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Cheng-Chi University in Taiwan. He has published four books and numerous chapter contributions, and his research and teaching concentrate on modern China.

RICHARD Y.CHUANG is Professor Political Science at the Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota, and Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, 1996-97. He was formerly Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northern State University, Sasakawa Fellow, Bush Fellow at Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management, and Scholar at the US Department of State. He is the author of The International Air Transport Association: a Case Study of a Quasi-Governmental Organization.