Hong Kong, 1997: East vs. West and the struggle for democratic reform within the Chinese state

Asian Survey

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 683-703

  Pepper, Suzanne ^a  

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EID: 0343687972     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.1997.37.8.01p02683     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Steve Yui-Sang Tsang, Democracy Shelved: Great Britain, China, and Attempts at Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong, 1945-1952 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
2. See "1949 nian, wo jun weihe bu gongzhan Xianggang" [Why our army did not occupy Hong Kong in 1949], Chengshi dangjian [Urban party building]. Organization and Propaganda Departments of the Hubei Provincial CCP Committee, Wuhan, no. 1 (1997), p. 45.
3. These constraints were rarely acknowledged in print. One exception is John Walden, Excellency, Your Gap is Growing! (Hong Kong: All Noble Company, 1987), p. 74. Walden retired in 1980, after a 30-year career with the Hong Kong government.
4. On the institutions of colonial government, see Norman Miners, The Government and Politics of Hong Kong, 5th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
5. See Far Easten Economic Review, September 29, 1983, p. 146, and October 6, 1983, p. 14; Frank Ching, Hong Kong and China: For Better or for Worse (New York: Asia Society and the Foreign Policy Association, 1985), pp 18-20.
6. See Far Easten Economic Review, September 29, 1983, p. 146, and October 6, 1983, p. 14; Frank Ching, Hong Kong and China: For Better or for Worse (New York: Asia Society and the Foreign Policy Association, 1985), pp 18-20.
7. See Far Easten Economic Review, September 29, 1983, p. 146, and October 6, 1983, p. 14; Frank Ching, Hong Kong and China: For Better or for Worse (New York: Asia Society and the Foreign Policy Association, 1985), pp 18-20.
8. See David Bonavia, Hong Kong 1997 (Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Publication, 1983); George L. Hicks, Hong Kong Countdown (Hong Kong: Wroters' and Publishers' Cooperative, 1989).
9. See David Bonavia, Hong Kong 1997 (Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Publication, 1983); George L. Hicks, Hong Kong Countdown (Hong Kong: Wroters' and Publishers' Cooperative, 1989).
10. On the Sino-British negotiations through 1984, see Robert Cottrell, The End of Hong Kong: The Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat (London: John Murray, 1993), passim; Percy Cradock, Experiences of China (London: John Murray, 1994), pp. 159-215; Ian Scott, Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Hong Kong (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989), chap. 5.
11. On the Sino-British negotiations through 1984, see Robert Cottrell, The End of Hong Kong: The Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat (London: John Murray, 1993), passim; Percy Cradock, Experiences of China (London: John Murray, 1994), pp. 159-215; Ian Scott, Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Hong Kong (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989), chap. 5.
12. On the Sino-British negotiations through 1984, see Robert Cottrell, The End of Hong Kong: The Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat (London: John Murray, 1993), passim; Percy Cradock, Experiences of China (London: John Murray, 1994), pp. 159-215; Ian Scott, Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Hong Kong (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989), chap. 5.
13. White Paper: The Further Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Government, November 1984).
14. South China Morning Post (SCMP), and Hong Kong Standard, both September 17, 1984. For a collection of early popular views inspired by the 1997 question, see Hong Kong in Search of a Future, Joseph Y. S. Cheng, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).
15. South China Morning Post (SCMP), and Hong Kong Standard, both September 17, 1984. For a collection of early popular views inspired by the 1997 question, see Hong Kong in Search of a Future, Joseph Y. S. Cheng, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).
16. SCMP, March 7, 8, and 9, 1985.
17. Ibid., September 26 and 28, 1985.
18. Ta Kung Pao [Dagongbao] (Hong Kong), November 22, 1985.
19. The botched consultation exercise still looms large in the annals of Hong Kong's democracy movement. See Mark: Roberti, The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal (rev.) (New York: John Wiley, 1996), chap. 17.
20. David Bonavia, "Foreword," in Basic Law, Basic Questions, William McGurn, ed. (Hong Kong: Review Publishing Company, 1988), p. viii.
21. Martin Lee, "How Much Autonomy?" in Basic Law, Basic Quastions, pp. 37-52.
22. For a useful survey of the Basic Law drafting process, see Roberti, Fall of Hong Kong, Part 2. All three Basic Law drafts are reprinted in The Hong Kong Basic Law, Ming K. Chan and David J. Clark, eds. (Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1991). This is the first of a multivolume reprint series published by Sharpe under the general title, Hong Kong Becoming China: The Transition to 1997.
23. For a useful survey of the Basic Law drafting process, see Roberti, Fall of Hong Kong, Part 2. All three Basic Law drafts are reprinted in The Hong Kong Basic Law, Ming K. Chan and David J. Clark, eds. (Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1991). This is the first of a multivolume reprint series published by Sharpe under the general title, Hong Kong Becoming China: The Transition to 1997.
24. For a useful survey of the Basic Law drafting process, see Roberti, Fall of Hong Kong, Part 2. All three Basic Law drafts are reprinted in The Hong Kong Basic Law, Ming K. Chan and David J. Clark, eds. (Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1991). This is the first of a multivolume reprint series published by Sharpe under the general title, Hong Kong Becoming China: The Transition to 1997.
25. On the 1992 reforms, see Jonathan Dimbleby, The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong (London: Little, Brown, & Co., 1997).
26. White Paper, November 1984, p. 3.
27. From a November 1985 Legco speech by Martin Lee (SCMP, November 28, 1985).
28. See Professor Sung's article (this issue) on Hong Kong's economic transition; also Michael J. Enright et al., The Hong Kong Advantage (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
29. For a more systematic approach to Hong Kong futurology, see Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, David Newman, and Alvin Rabushka, Red Flag over Hong Kong (Chatham, N. J.: Chatham House, 1996).
30. Deng Xiaoping, "Huijian Xianggang tebie xingzhengqu jibenfa qicao weiyuanhui weiyuan shi de jianghua" [Talk to members of the Hong Kong SAR basic law drafting committee], April 16, 1987, in Deng Xiaoping, Lun Xianggang wenti [On Hong Kong questions] (Hong Kong: Sanlian, 1993), pp. 35-36.
31. Deng Xiaoping, "Huijian Xianggang tebie xingzhengqu jibenfa qicao weiyuanhui weiyuan shi de jianghua" [Talk to members of the Hong Kong SAR basic law drafting committee], April 16, 1987, in Deng Xiaoping, Lun Xianggang wenti [On Hong Kong questions] (Hong Kong: Sanlian, 1993), pp. 35-36.