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In his book, Government and Politics: A Documentary History of Kong, Steve Tsang (1995), discussed the pre-transitional government and history of that government in Hong Kong. For all intents and purposes, the government in China's influence over Hong Kong was virtually non-existent since the UK's presence on the island (271). In fact, the political environment in Hong Kong was one that made it safe for the island to receive political refuges (Ash et al. 199). There was concern that those individuals would be very much at risk in a post hand over environment.

In a study conducted by Lee-In Chen Chiu, Ding Yi, Si Joong Kim, Won Bae Kim, Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok, Hong Yung Lee, Karen Eggleston Lee, Li Wuwei, Shelley M. Mark, Manuel F. Montes, Richard Pomfret, Alvin Y. So, Shi Min, Sung Shou Wei, Yibo Xu, Zhang Zhongli, Lishui Zhu, Sumner J. La Croix, Michael Plummer, Keun Lee; M.E. Sharpe (2007), the researchers find that most of the fears concerning the handover of Hong Kong to the mainland were, for the most part, unfounded (11). That business flourishes in Hong Kong, thus, in China, and Hong has probably served to bring China more firmly into the economic fold capitalism, and a seemingly quasi-capitalism-communism government is the result in China today.

Hong Kong's reversion to China on 1 July, 1997 was unusual. Not only did an underdeveloped Communist country incorporate a world-class city, but scheduled far in advance, the community had time to reflect on the meaning of the transition in their daily lives. There has thus been much interest in how the Hong Kong people defined reversion, and made strategies to meet the challenges (Ash et al. 248)."

That the people of Hong Kong were heavily democratized by virtue of their participation in the Hong Kong business world, and by government of the UK, is inarguable (Ash 248). However, their identity was, too, deeply rooted in the mainland, where they had relatives and roots (Ash 248). The transition from the free and democratic government of the UK, to the Communist government of the mainland has not always been easy, and it has even had its controversies,...

Today, Hong Kong is as bustling a cultural center as it was during the years that it was government by the UK; but it is, too, distinctly governed by its Communist mainland, and there is, in that way, a noticeable difference as to how the public conducts themselves. The end of entrepreneurial endeavors did not end with the reversion of Hong Kong back to the mainland (Wong 1996).
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http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98000082

Ash, Robert, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook, and Robin Porter, eds. Hong Kong in Transition: The Handover Years. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. Questia. 11 Dec. 2007 http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98000084.

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Chiu, Lee-In Chen, et al. Emerging Patterns of East Asian Investment in China: From Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Ed. Sumner J. La Croix, Michael Plummer, and Keun Lee. Armonk, NY M.E. Sharpe, 1995. Questia. 11 Dec. 2007 http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=91896560.
Mushkat, Roda. One Country, Two International Legal Personalities: The Case of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1997. Questia. 11 Dec. 2007 http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27813045.
Tsang, Steve, ed. Government and Politics: A Documentary History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1995. Questia. 11 Dec. 2007 http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14561367.
Wong, Yim Yu. "Hong Kong the Crossroads: Will Reversion to China Spell the End of Entrepreneurship?." SAM Advanced Management Journal 61.3 (1996): 16+. Questia. 11 Dec. 2007 http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000432785.
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