ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an analytic framework that might be useful for reviewing and interpreting the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions in the Hong Kong-Guangdong link. It examines the present relationship between Hong Kong-Guangdong and the global community through patterns of population migration. The chapter discuses the framework of analysis and the relationship between the region and the world beyond, and presents four research issues addressed by scholars in the humanities and social sciences who have been studying various aspects of this integration process, and here offer their assessments of the territory's future. It elaborates briefly the theoretical framework of the three perspectives outlined above. In reviewing the Hong Kong-Guangdong relationship, these three perspectives-political and cultural forces, institutional structure, and development-suggest very different trajectories for the future of the Hong Kong-Guangdong region, although the weight assigned them necessarily varies as they are factored into different integration issues.
