This is a handbook about the future of Hong Kong, and since events in China will determine Hong Kong's future, it is also a guide to the future of China. It addresses many issues such as: who will succeed Deng Xiaoping?; what role will the People's Liberation Army play in Hong Kong's affairs?; will corruption overwhelm the rule of law?; will Hong Kong's free-market economy and budding democracy survive China's Communist party?; will academic, press, and religious freedom disappear?; and can the international community successfully intervene to protect Hong Kong's freedoms? The authors of this book feel that China's promise that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in its social, economic, and political affairs is empty. They surmise that Hong Kong will gradually lose its economic vitality, and its mainly Chinese residents will probably lose their individual liberties, and they predict that Hong Kong's bright past will give way to a cloudy and uncertain future.
- ISBN10 1566430410
- ISBN13 9781566430418
- Publish Date 29 April 1996 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
- Imprint Chatham House Publishers Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English