Hong Kong: Colonial Legacy, Transformation, and Challenge

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 547, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-23

  Chan, Ming K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030485768     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716296547001002     Document Type: Editorial

References (25)

1. Peter Wesley-Smith, Unequal Treaty 1898-1997: China, Great Britain and Hong Kong's New Territories (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).
2. Hu Sheng, Imperialism and Chinese Politics (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981), reflects the PRC's view on the negative historical effects of imperialism in China.
3. James T. H. Tang, “World War to Cold War: Hong Kong's Future and the Anglo-Chinese Interactions, 1941-55,” in Precarious Balance: Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992, ed. Ming K. Chan (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1994), pp. 110-114.
4. Macau will return to PRC sovereignty on 20 Dec. 1999 under arrangements similar to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
5. James Tang and Frank Ching, “The Maclehose-Youde Years: Balancing the ‘Three-Legged Stool,’ 1971-1986,” in Precarious Balance, ed. Chan, pp. 157-160.
6. Ambrose Y. C. King, “Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong: Emphasis on the Grassroots Level,” in Social Life and Development in Hong Kong, ed. A.Y.C. King and Rance P. L. Lee (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1981), pp. 127-146.
7. Peter Wesley-Smith, “Anti-Chinese Legislation in Hong Kong,” in Precarious Balance, ed. Chan, pp. 91-106.
8. Ming K. Chan, “Labor vs. Crown: Aspects of Society-State Interactions in the Hong Kong Labor Movement Before World War II,” in Between East and West: Aspects of Social and Political Development in Hong Kong, ed. E.Y.Y. Sinn (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, Center for Asian Studies, 1990), pp. 132-146.
9. Ming K. Chan, “Stability and Prosperity in Hong Kong: The Twilight of Laissez-Faire Colonialism?” Journal of Asian Studies, 37(3):589-598 (May 1983).
10. Ian Scott, “Political Transformation in Hong Kong: From Colony to Colony,” in Guangdong Link, ed. Kwok and So, pp. 189-223.
11. On pre-1997 Public sector reform, see Jane Y. C. Lee and Anthony B. L. Cheung, eds., Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong: Key Concepts, Program-to-Date, and Future Directions (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1995).
12. Ming K. Chan, Global Dimensions of Hong Kong's Transition Toward 1997 (Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Marquette University Center for International Studies, 1995), pp. 12-18.
13. Ming K. Chan, “Democracy Derailed: Realpolitik in the Making of the Hong Kong Basic Law, 1985-1990,” in The Hong Kong Basic Law: Blueprint for ‘Stability and Prosperity’ under Chinese Sovereignty? ed. Ming K. Chan and David Clark (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991), pp. 3-35.
14. See Ming-Kwan Lee, “Community and Identity in Transition in Hong Kong,” in Guangdong Link, ed. Kwok and So, pp. 119-132.
15. For the impact of the events of 4 June 1989 at Tiananmen Square on Hong Kong's democratization, see Chan, “Democracy Derailed,” pp. 17-25.
16. See Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas China (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1994). See also Khun Eng Kuah, “Negotiating Emigration and the Family: Individual Solutions to the 1997 Anxiety,” this issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
17. See Frank Ching, “Toward Colonial Sunset: The Wilson Regime, 1987-1992,” in Precarious Balance, ed. Chan, pp. 173-197. See also Chan, Global Dimensions, pp. 8-10.
18. Chan, Global Dimensions, pp. 16-18.
19. On the elections, see Ming K. Chan, “The 1991 Elections in Hong Kong: Democratization in the Shadow of Tiananmen,” in China in Transition: Economic, Political, and Social Developments, ed. George T. Yu (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 229-250. See also idem, “Decolonization Without Democracy: The Birth of Pluralistic Politics in Hong Kong,” in The Politics of Democratization: Generalizing East Asian Experiences, ed. Edward Friedman (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), pp. 161-181.
20. Burns, “Hong Kong in 1992”; Pepper, “Hong Kong in 1994.”
21. Figures based on South China Morning Post, 19-20 Sept. 1995; Sin Tao Daily, 19-20 Sept. 1995.
22. See South China Morning Post, 29-30 Nov. 1995; Sing Tao Daily, 29-30 Nov. 1995. See Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 Nov. 1995, p. 36, on Hong Kong's inadequate welfare provisions.
23. Dorothy Y. C. Liu, a Hong Kong member of China's National People's Congress, coined the term “old batteries” to describe these “colonial turncoats” that staffed the SAR Preliminary Working Committee. Her sentiment is well received by the local populace.
24. Tse-han Lai, Ramon Myers, and Wou Wei, A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991).
25. Chan, Global Dimensions, p. 20.