TY - JOUR
T1 - Tung Chee-hwa and his challenges
T2 - Chinese Studies Association of Australia 5th Biennial Conference 1997
AU - Chu, Cindy Yik-yi
N1 - This is a revised version of a paper presented at the 5th Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, July 16-18, 1997. The author would like to thank the Hong Kong Baptist University for its faculty research grant which greatly facilitated the research and writing of this article.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - This article examines the course of events in Hong Kong from the election of the Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) in December 1996 to the handover on July 1, 1997. It attempts to understand the local perspective, to see how the Hong Kong people viewed their future and the newly elected Chief Executive. It argues that the Hong Kong people were confident of their future, but their trust in the Chief Executive wavered in accordance with different events. There was popular concern for the maintenance of the status quo, as an indicator of the viability of the concept of "one country, two systems." Chief Executive-designate Tung Cheehwa needed to pay more attention to the differences between the "two systems," to preserve the status quo of Hong Kong, while counteracting public anxieties over the dominance by "one country." Although the SAR administration began on July 1, 1997, Tung Chee-hwa had already become the territory's shadow head in the months before the handover.
AB - This article examines the course of events in Hong Kong from the election of the Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) in December 1996 to the handover on July 1, 1997. It attempts to understand the local perspective, to see how the Hong Kong people viewed their future and the newly elected Chief Executive. It argues that the Hong Kong people were confident of their future, but their trust in the Chief Executive wavered in accordance with different events. There was popular concern for the maintenance of the status quo, as an indicator of the viability of the concept of "one country, two systems." Chief Executive-designate Tung Cheehwa needed to pay more attention to the differences between the "two systems," to preserve the status quo of Hong Kong, while counteracting public anxieties over the dominance by "one country." Although the SAR administration began on July 1, 1997, Tung Chee-hwa had already become the territory's shadow head in the months before the handover.
UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/42704173
M3 - Conference article
SN - 0258-9184
VL - 22
SP - 169
EP - 191
JO - Asian Perspective
JF - Asian Perspective
IS - 2
Y2 - 16 July 1997 through 18 July 1997
ER -