...Howard Chiang Advances for minority rights in Taiwan may help make the case for independence at a time when China has increased pressure for reunification and faces protests in Hong Kong. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Taiwan...

...Allen Chun What used to be viewed as relatively self-defined polities in a previous era … are now being reconfigured by competing centripetal and centrifugal tensions. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Allen Chun China Hong...

...Hong Liu [F]or the first time in modern history, a rising China is shaping the relationship, transforming the diaspora's identity … 312 [F]or the first time in modern history, a rising China is shaping the relationship, transforming the diaspora s identity . . . Opportunities and Anxieties for...

...Malte Philipp Kaeding [T]he movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong … are essentially about the reaffirmation of a distinct local identity. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Malte Philipp Kaeding Taiwan Hong Kong China protest...

...Craig N. Canning Chinese central government officials are reluctant to allow political reform in Hong Kong to proceed too rapidly or to be driven primarily by public demonstrations and aggressive pro-democracy activists. © 2004 Current History. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the...

...Frank Ching Hong Kong has little choice but to try to make the one country, two systems formula work. The alternative is not independence but absorption into the mainland's political system. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Hong...

... Chee- hwa, chief executive of Hong Kong, in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and promised full support for Hong Kong s efforts to control the epidemic. Hu s willingness to go to Guangdong province, the epi- center of the SARS outbreak, appealed to the Chinese public. It also contrasted with Jiang...

...Dru Gladney Not unlike Hong Kong (which under the one-country, two-systems formula continues to fly its own flag), the unique situation in Xinjiang calls for dramatic and creative solutions. The future of this region, which the American sinologist Owen Lattimore once called the ‘pivot of Asia...

...Craig N. Canning After four years of Hong Kong self-rule, the overriding question remains whether the “one country, two systems” experiment is working. So far the answer is yes-with some qualification. The handover ceremonies on June 30, 1997,returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereigntyafter 156...