ABSTRACT
This book attempts to explore the causes of Hong Kong’s poor governance and to evaluate its prospects since the early 2000s. On July 1, 2003, over half a million Hong Kong people joined in a mass protest against the poor governance of the post-handover Hong Kong government, the likely legislation of draconian anti-subversion laws, and for speedier democratization. The scale of the July 1 rally was the largest seen since 1989 in Hong Kong, a city of 6.8 million people. Although the protests in 1989 exceeded the scale of the 2003 marches, the Tiananmen protesters demonstrated against abuse of human rights in China, rather than poor governance within Hong Kong.1
