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Product Description: Hong Kong faces the greatest challenge in its history as it returns to Chinese rule in 1997. How will it be affected by the pressures of the hand over period, and what lessons can be drawn from its relations with China and its other neighbors in recent years? Hong Kong has survived crises in the past, most notably after the Japanese takeover in 1941...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Politically, Taiwan is still seen by many as military dictatorship, tainted by the imposition of a one-party state by the Kuomintang, which lost out to the Communists in China in 1949. Although Taiwan is a booming industrial state of 20 million people with the highest foreign exchange reserves in the world, its politics tend to be dismissed as peripheral to the study of modern China...read more

Product Description: Between 1945 and 1952, the British government considered granting Hong Kong the right to elected self-government, but in 1952 the proposal was withdrawn. This study examines the genesis, development, and eventual abandonment of reform proposals for Hong Kong in the context of postwar British colonial policy and the changing political situation in Southeast Asia...read more