Routledge, 2014. — 178 p. A society’s response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial periods, and in doing so, underscores the history of Hong Kong itself and its present-day...
Milano: ISPI, 2020. — 127 p. — ISBN: 9788855262460 As the Covid-19 pandemic strikes hard, protests in Hong Kong appear to have abated. Distant seem the days when yellow umbrellas and balaclavas saturated global media. And yet, just like at the start of what has now come to be known as the 2019 “global protest wave”, Hong Kong remains at the frontline of political contestation...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 295 p. — (International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation). This is a case study of legal transplant, economic development, cultural adaptation and political integration. Hong Kong's journey from British entrepôt to China's international financial centre is one of the most interesting legal stories of our time. But Hong Kong's...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 276 p. The chapters in this book arose from a Centre for Comparative and Public Law conference that was supported by the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong, and the Constitutional Law Project, funded by the University of Hong Kong’s Strategic Research Theme initiative. In addition, we would like to thank Cheng Yulin, Choy Dick Wan,...
Routledge, 2019. — 304 p. Under the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong the previous capitalist system and life-style shall remain unchanged for 50 years. This concept has been embedded in the Basic Law of Hong Kong. The future of the Common Law judicial system in Hong Kong depends on the perceptions of it by Hong Kong's Chinese population; judicial...
Springer, 2017. — 217 p. — (China Academic Library). — ISBN 978-981-10-4186-0. This book differs from most others of its kind, by looking at the Hong Kong issue from China’s perspective, which in turn mirrors China’s own situation. Through a legal lens, the author conducts a political and cultural examination of the past and the present, and provides a comprehensive overview of...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. — xii, 262 p. — (Hong Kong culture and society). — ISBN: 9789622099302. 香港：香港大學出版社 . Law Wing Sang provides an alternative lens for looking into Hong Kong’s history by breaking away for the usual colonial and nationalist interpretations. Drawing on both English and Chinese sources, he argues that, from the early colonial era,...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. — xii, 360 p.: ill. — ISBN: 9789622099968. 香港大學出版社. Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong Kong...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1997. — 233 p. Hong Kong, a community traditionally preoccupied with the maximization of economic value and shunning international political attention, has found itself since the early 1980s in the centre of events of a distinetly transnational character.
Routledge, 2017. — 220 p. — (Routledge Studies in Asian Law). This book examines important social movements in Hong Kong from the perspectives of historical and cultural studies. Conventionally regarded as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong Kong has yet witnessed many demonstrations and struggles against the colonial and post-colonial governments during the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 227 p. — (Law in Context). Drawing on archival materials, Michael Ng challenges the widely accepted narrative that freedom of expression in Hong Kong is a legacy of British rule of law. Demonstrating that the media and schools were pervasively censored for much of the colonial period and only liberated at a very late stage of British rule,...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 233 p. In writing this book and pursuing my graduate study, I received enormous intellectual guidance, support, and friendship from various individuals and institutions. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge them. This book began as a political science dissertation at the University of Chicago.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1999. — 710 p. Hong Kong's new legal order was, like Rome, not built in a day. And the construction continues. Though its architecture was formulated in the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and its foundations laid by the Basic Law, it would be premature to determine the resilience of the edifice. The essays collected here nevertheless...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Christian Institute, 1994. — vi, 127 p. — ISBN: 9627471143. This book is dedicated to its readers, primarily non-Chinese and non-Hong Kong residents, who share my concern for Hong Kong. I do not ask readers to agree with what is in this book; however, I implore readers to take an alternative view of Hong Kong. I want to pay tribute to the many Hong Kong...
Singapore: Singapore Pte Ltd., 2019. — 433 p. It is often said that a constitution is a nation’s basic law, that it stipulates the nation’s basic political, economic, and legal systems, that it embodies the institutionalization and legalization of the democratic system, and that it manifests the balance of power amongst the nation’s social classes. Put in clear and simple terms,...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1996. — 354 p. The 'sources' of law can be formal, historical, literary, or legal, the last-named being the means by which the law is created or changed (or perhaps merely differently perceived). This book is principally about the various legal sources of the law - old and new, written and 'unwritten', home-grown and imported - to which Hong...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 296 p. — (Hong Kong Studies Reader Series). — ISBN 978-981-16-2805-4. This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decades. It is one the one hand an overview of the major research themes of Hong Kong history and on the other a survey of the recent...
Brill, 2015. — 267 p. — (Chinese and Comparative Law). In Hong Kong's Legislature Under China's Sovereignty: 1998-2013 Dr Gu Yu thoroughly analyses how Hong Kong's legislature has impacted the law-making process as well as the financial control and supervision of the executive branch of the government.
Учебное пособие. — М.: Восток-Запад, 2006. — 112 с. — ISBN: 5-478-00256-9. За последнее десятилетие в состав КНР возвратились два бывших иностранных анклава, много лет существовавших на китайской земле. Они воссоединились с КНР на особых условиях, на основе принципа «Одна страна — две системы», выдвинутого китайскими реформаторами во главе с Дэн Сяопином. Не является ли этот...
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