This forum examines developments in Hong Kong in the 20 years since it became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and prospects for Hong Kong's future under Chinese rule.
Presentation #1: Twenty Years of Interpretation of the Basic Law by Beijing: a troubled story
Presented by: Professor Bing Ling,Professor of Chinese Law and Associate Dean (International), Sydney Law School and Associate Director (China) of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law.
Presentation #2: A Destabilising Stability: Hong Kong 20 years after 1997
Presented by: Dr Kevin Carrico, Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Macquarie University and the author of The Great Han: Race, Nationalism and Tradition in China Today (2017).
Presentation #3: Dissenting Media: post-1997 Hong Kong
Presented by: Joyce Nip, Senior Lecturer in Chinese media studies at the University of Sydney.
This forum was originally held as part of the Sydney Ideas on 22 August, 2017: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/hong_kong_twenty_years.shtml
