ABSTRACT
The analyses and discussions in the preceding chapter indicated that the effective governance in colonial Hong Kong was built upon the colonial state’s abilities in engineering a viable state–business alliance through which the colonial government had simultaneously combined the notions of state autonomy and state embeddedness. Such a viable state–business alliance had furnished the colonial Hong Kong state with strong capacity for maintaining effective governance and steering public policy-making throughout much of the British colonial period, at least until the 1980s.
