Singapore And Hong Kong: Comparative Perspectives On The 20th Anniversary Of Hong Kong's Handover To China

Download or read book Singapore And Hong Kong: Comparative Perspectives On The 20th Anniversary Of Hong Kong's Handover To China written by Institute Of Advanced Studies, Ntu, Singapore and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political, social and economic transformations have marked the 20 years since Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of China. To mark the historic handover, the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at Nanyang Technological University invited experts from various fields to share their unique insights on the developments and impact of the last 20 years on Hong Kong and Singapore in a conference in Singapore.This volume is a compilation of speeches and presentations delivered at the conference by such heavyweight experts as Wang Gungwu, Antony Leung and Yang Jinlin on the road travelled and the paths ahead for both cities. This volume is an invaluable collection on Hong Kong and Singapore's past, present and future. Readers can enjoy the salient analysis delivered with great thought and reflective humour.