A balanced analysis of a sensitive subject: Hong Kong's future prospects.

Focusing on the period since the handover of power to China, this book examines the origins and evolution of Hong Kong’s political system. Considering the prospects and problems of achieving liberal democracy within the communist Chinese state system, it provides useful insights into the meaning of central concepts in democratic political theory.

Analyses the complexity of the economic, political and cultural transformation of the Hong Kong-Guangdong link, and focuses on the dynamics of the integration process between the two territories.

Hong Kong's expanding export-import trade and importance as a capital market have made it one of the major economic centers of Asia, second only to Tokyo. Consequently, the reversion of this previously capitalist city to the People's Republic of China ten years from now will have serious ramifications for the Western financial world. There is much speculation concerning the impact of communist control of the three principal factors which have contributed to Hong Kong's current standing: its political and social stability, economic reform, and the British legal system.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES SERIES papers are written for and published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The series will present the insights of prominent East Asian analysts and draw conclusions about complementarities or divergences that may exist. Those insights, in tum, will serve in the aggregate as the basis for a richer, cross-

Since its first publication in 1980, this book has become the standard introductory text describing the environment for business and investment in Hong Kong.

Explores Hong Kong's history and culture in detail, profiling the powers behind Hong Kong's business and political worlds.