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THE
HONG KONG
READER

THE
HONG KONG
READER

Passage to Chinese Sovereignty
An Interdisciplinary Reader

Ming K. Chan and Gerard A. Postiglione, Editors

Foreword by Ezra F. Vogel

First published 1996 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Hong Kong reader: passage to Chinese sovereignty / Ming K. Chan and Gerard A. Postiglione, edtiors.
p. cm.
An East gate book.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56324-870-0 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Hong KongPolitics and government.
2. Hong KongEconomic conditions.
3. EducationHong Kong.
4. Hong KongRelationsChina.
5. ChinaRelationsHong Kong.
I. Chan, Ming K.
II. Postiglione, Gerard A., 1951
DS796.H757H658 1996
951.25dc20
96-10816
CIP

ISBN 13: 9781563248702 (pbk)

Contents

by Ezra F. Vogel

Ming K. Chan and Gerard A. Postiglione

Ming K. Chan

James T. H. Tang and Frank Ching

Berry F. Hsu

Gerard A. Postiglione

Julian Y. M. Leung

Ronald Sheldon

Peter Kwong

Yun-wing Sung

Alvin Y. So and Reginald Y. Kwok

Rarely has the return of a colony to its motherland received such careful attention. Since 1982, Beijing and London officials have carried on almost continuous negotiations about Hong Kongs future. Hong Kong businessmen have shuttled to Beijing and back, cultivating the good will of high Chinese officials and learning how to operate under Communist rule, while looking after their own business interests. For fifteen years the people of Hong Kong have avidly followed a daily fare of newspaper and TV reporting and speculation about events in China that will shape their future.

To Beijing, the return of Hong Kong is the penultimate great step in ending the century and a half of humiliation of bending to the might of Japanese and Westerners. After 1997 only Taiwan will remain outside Beijings jurisdiction. Beijing leaders have made it clear they want to maintain Hong Kongs vitality, but they have also shown that they will not hesitate to take a tough line when they feel that Hong Kong might be a haven for critics mobilizing opposition to Beijing.

To London, the return of Hong Kong is a last final step in ending the British Empire. London officials are trying to assure an honorable exit, providing for the continued welfare of civil servants and loyal subjects, while walking a delicate tightrope between a hard line in Beijing and demanding voices in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong citizens are resourceful in trying every possible way of enhancing their viability after 1997. Lawyers and business people, now protected by laws and predictable government, are trying to ensure the vitality of the legal system. Rich families have already diversified their holdings and family members to North America, Europe, and Australia. Professionals remaining in Hong Kong are busily strengthening their ties with counterparts abroad. Business people have long since learned how to do business on the other side of the border. Some businessmen, confident that competitive cost structures will determine their future, are busily building modern roads and railroads to Wuhan, the critical gateway to inner China. They believe that if transport costs from Wuhan to Hong Kong can become lower than those from Wuhan to Shanghai, goods will flow from inner China to Hong Kong, enabling them to stay a step ahead of Shanghai.

This collection of writings by academics, mostly living in Hong Kong, looks at some of the basic issues governing Hong Kongs future: politics, judicial practice, education, migration, economics. Hong Kong scholars have been prolific in writing about Hong Kongs future. This volume is one of the last to be published before reversion of Hong Kong to mainland rule. Perhaps there will be no better indicator of Hong Kongs freedoms and independence than whether books like this will continue to appear after June 1997.

Ezra F. Vogel
Cambridge, Massachusetts
March 7, 1996

We are grateful to Doug Merwin and Tom Bacher of M. E. Sharpe for suggesting the idea which led to the present volume. As the chapters are based on amended and revised selections from the six already-published volumes in our series Hong Kong Becoming China: the Transition to 1997, we wish to extend our appreciation to the contributors to these volumes. Our assistant, Roy Chi-Kwong Man, has made the preparation of the present volume a much more manageable task under tight time constraints and we owe him a debt of gratitude. Last but definitely not least, the editorial/production staff at M. E. Sharpe have rendered great assistance in the production of all the volumes in our series and the present Reader, and they deserve our heartfelt thanks time and again.

Ming K. Chan
Gerard A. Postiglione
January 1, 1996

Ming K. Chan is a member of the History Department, University of Hong Kong, and Executive Coordinator of the Hong Kong Documentary Archives, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His recent books include The Hong Kong Basic Law: Blueprint for Stability and Prosperity Under Chinese Sovereignty? (1991), Schools into Fields and Factories: The Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 192732 (1991), and Precarious Balance: Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 18421992 (1994).

Gerard A. Postiglione is a member of the Department of Education, University of Hong Kong, and Director of Advanced Studies in Education and National Development Program. His books include Education and Society in Hong Kong: Toward One Country and Two Systems (1992), Social Change and Educational Development: Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

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