Overview
- Summarizes and explores the reality of Hong Kong politics today
- Places Hong Kong's issues into an international context
- Draws upon theoretical insights as well as empirical observations
Part of the book series: Hong Kong Studies Reader Series (HKSRS)
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Keywords
- Hong Kong
- One Country, Two Systems
- Oligarchy
- Urban Politics
- Rising China
About this book
The book advances a unique integrated comparative framework for studying Hong Kong through geopolitical, autonomy, centre-periphery, democratisation, political-economic, and governance perspectives. It guides readers to understand and interpret the various political dimensions of Hong Kong in a comprehensive and holistic way.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative politics. Experienced political researchers in Hong Kong will find this book illuminating; while comparative political scholars worldwide would also find it a handy introductory text to the important case of Hong Kong. This book is also an excellent resource for instructors and students of Asian Studies, China Studies, and Hong Kong Studies.
Reviews
Hong Kong’s political existence has always been atypical, not easily susceptible to conventional theorisations. The city will continue to see twists and turns in its trajectory as a special administrative region of China. Hong Kong Politics has not come to an end as some fatalists put it. Fong’s book provides an overview of an era. The next era has only just begun.”
—Professor Anthony B. L. Cheung, former President of the Education University of Hong Kong (2008-12).
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Brian C. H. Fong is Full Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. His research focuses on great power competition, democratisation, and identity politics, producing more than 80 journal articles, book chapters, authored books, and so forth. He is the author of US-China Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacifi c: A Tale of Two Hegemons (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) and lead editor of The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition (Routledge, 2024).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hong Kong Politics
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Introduction
Authors: Brian C. H. Fong
Series Title: Hong Kong Studies Reader Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7959-8Due: 09 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7962-8Due: 09 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7960-4Due: 09 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2523-7764
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7772
Edition Number: 1