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HONG KONG, 1997: The Politics of Transition. By Enbao Wang. Boulder (Colorado): Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995. xiii, 231 pp. U.S.$45.00, cloth. ISBN 1-55587-597-1.
THIS VOLUME is a political scientist's examination of the PRC's Hong Kong policy in the transitional era, with particular reference to local democratization and the central-Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) relationship. The book is divided into eight chapters. Chapter one looks into the PRC's notion of sovereignty and its limited choice in Hong Kong's 1997 retrocession. Chapter 2 delineates the PRC's "one country, two systems" policy toward Hong Kong which is linked with the Taiwan issue. Chapter 3 reviews the most controversial part of the Basic Law Hong Kong's democratization and SAR polity. Chapter 4 tries to gauge the autonomy of HKSAR. Chapter 5 focuses on Beijing's notion of sovereignty as manifested in the drafting of the Basic Law. Chapter 6 asserts that the reforms unleashed by Deng Xiaoping have facilitated Hong Kong-mainland reintegration through economic interdependence and reducing social and economic disparities. Chapter 7 describes PRC's policies toward Hong Kong from the earlier Sino-British cooperation to...