Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years

by Robert F. Ash (Editor)

This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Well-known commentors from a variety of disciplines examine the issues and events in the years leading up to the transfer of sovereignty, and in the eighteen months that followed. Major dilemmas are addressed in the economic, political legal, social and diplomatic life on the territory, which remain in many cases unresolved and pressing as Hong Kong enters the new century.

Hardcover

First published June 5, 2000

About the author

Robert F. Ash BA MSc (Econ) PhD (London)

Professor of Economics with reference to China and Taiwan at the SOAS China Institute & Founder of the Centre of Taiwan Studies.

Ash's current research focuses on economic and social development in China (food security, rural development, population and migration, employment, consumption and living standards), and agricultural development in post-1949 Taiwan.