From Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin offers a macro-historical analysis of the political reform process since the People's Republic of China adopted open door and reform policies in the late 1970s. One of the important topics that fascinates students of Chinese politics is the democratization prospect of the People's Republic of China, characterized widely by academics as a Leninist dictatorship. Democratic development in China is closely related to the prospect of political reform. Despite the abundance of published work on China's political development, there is a shortage of literature on...

In the tumultuous negotiations of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, the United Kingdom willingly signed over Hong Kong's reigns to the People's Republic of China, but with the presupposition that the PRC would faithfully implement the principle of "one country, two systems" for the following fifty years. Yet since the handover in 1997, the PRC has failed to allow Hong Kong a higher degree of autonomy. "One Country, Two Systems" in Crisis elucidates how China's intervention has curtailed Hong Kong's civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how...