November, 2007

Book Release

One Country, Two Systems :
A Ten-Year Experiment and Beyond

Edited by	:	Rose Wu
Publisher	:	Hong Kong Christian Institute
Year	:	2007
Price	:	HK$80.00/US$11.00/EUR€8.00

In order to mark the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover and to lift up the voices of the voiceless in our community, this publication aim at informing the international community about Hong Kong’s experiences during the first decade since its transfer of sovereignty based on the critical reflections of local social and political activists. This book contains three sections—overall reviews of the “one country, two systems” experiment; people’s resistance and transformation; and the Church, politics, and Christian social witness.

“Hong Kong’s transition from a British colony to a SAR of China under “one country, two systems” has neither resulted in the activation of civil society nor the empowerment of its citizenry. Rather, as a result of the combined effects of autocratic rule and the economic absorption of Hong Kong into the mainland, Hong Kong appears to suffer from a demoralising state of mind akin to “learned helplessness,” which is getting worse as Hong Kong’s political and social reforms are stalled.”—Chan Ka-loh

“One way to deal with apathy toward the political system in general, and toward gender issues faced by women in particular, is to create space to construct new conceptions of power relationships in the everyday lives of women and to do it through an organised women’s movement.”—Hilda Chan Shun-hing and Leung Lai-ching

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