The Hong Kong Conundrum: Pangs of Transition

ISBN-13: 9781032429359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 234 str.

Rup Narayan Das

Opis

This book attempts to encapsulate the history of Hong Kong ever since the territory was acquired by Great Britain to the signing of the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law, the democracy debate in Hong Kong, the ethnic Indians in Hong Kong and the pangs of transition.

O autorze

Rup Narayan Das obtained Ph.D in Chinese studies from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Currently, he is a senior fellow of Indian Council of Social Science Research affiliated to the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi after his retirement from as joint secretary in the Lok Sabha secretariat of Indian Parliament in July 2019. Earlier he was a senior fellow with Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies (MP-IDSA) from June 2010 to August 2014. His research papers have been published in journals like the Harvard Asia Quarterly, Global Asia, China Report, International Studies (Sage), Strategic Analyses and Journal of Defence Studies, China Brief of Jamestown Foundation, Washington, China-India Brief of Singapore National University. He has participated in track two dialogues with China, Taiwan, Japan and Mongolia and has presented papers at national and international conferences. He is a columnist with Rediffnews and book reviewer with Business Standard. He has been awarded Taiwan Fellowship for the year 2022.