Hong Kong 20 Years after the Handover: Emerging Social and Institutional Fractures After 1997

358 Pages·2018·13.83 MB·English

by  Brian C.H. Fong

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Hong Kong 20 Years
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Emerging Social and Institutional Fractures
After 1997
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C
ONTENTS
PartI ConstitutionalandPolitical Fractures
1 The Impasse OverConstitutionalReform: Negotiating
Democracy in Hong Kong 3
KitPoon
2 From Executive Dominance toFragmented Authority:
An InstitutionalandPolitical Analysis 21
NgokMa
3 Executive-Legislative Disconnection inthe HKSAR:
Uneasy Partnership BetweenChiefExecutives
and Pro-GovernmentParties, 1997–2016 45
BrianC.H.Fong
4 Changing Political Activism:Before andAfterthe
Umbrella Movement 73
Wai-ManLam
5 State CapacityandPolitical Disconnection inthe HKSAR:
The Case StudyofHealthcare Financing Reform 103
AlexWo-shun Chan
vii
viii CONTENTS
PartII EconomicandSocial Fractures
6 Financialization and EconomicInequality inHong Kong:
The Cost of the Finance-ledGrowth Regime 127
KimMingLee, BennyHo PongTo andKar MingYu
7 Unequal VulnerabilitytoSocial Risks: AnalysisofHong
Kong’sSocial Strata (1993–2013) 153
ChiKitChan andDavid WaiLunHo
8 Housing Question andSocial DiscontentAfter 1997:
History andContinuity of HomeOwnership 177
TzeKen Yau
9 Growing Tensionsin HongKong’sState-Nonprofit
Relations 203
Chi-kinKwan andErnestWing-tak Chui
PartIII Central-LocalTensionsand IdentityFractures
10 A Historical PerspectiveonHong KongAutonomy:
Traditionsof British Imperialism,Maritime Enclave
and ContendingViewsof British Interest 231
RayYep
11 In Beijing’s Tightening Grip 255
PeterT.Y. Cheung
12 Undoing China’s Charm Offensive:ChineseTourists
in Hong Kong’s News Discourses(2003–2015) 287
ChiKitChan
13 Fading Opportunities: HongKong inthe Context
of Regional Integration 315
Tai-lokLui
CONTENTS ix
Epilogue 339
Index 345
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IST OF IGURES
Fig.4.1 Cleavagestructure 74
Fig.6.1 Trendofstockownersandstockinvestors 141
Fig.6.2 Privatedomestic—Annualpropertypriceindicesofallclasses
(territorywide),1980–2015 144
Fig.13.1 HongKongresidentsworkinginthemainlandofChina 321
Fig.13.2 OccupationaldistributionofHongKongresidentsworking
inthemainland,1992–2010 322
Fig.13.3 EducationbackgroundofthoseHongKongresidents
workinginthemainland 324
Fig.13.4 TheagestructureofHongKongresidentsworking
inthemainland 326
Fig.13.5 MedianageofHongKong’sworkingpopulationandHong
Kongresidentsworkinginthemainland 327
Fig.13.6 HongKongresidentswhohadworkedasemployees
inthemainlandduringthe12monthsofenumeration
bywhetheremployedbycompaniesinHongKong 329
Fig.13.7 HongKongresidentsworkinginthemainlandbyusualplace
ofworkwhileworkinginthemainland 330
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