Larry Catá Backer

Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems': Essays from the Year that Transformed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (June 2019-June 2020) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Hong Kong Between "One Country" and "Two Systems" examines the battle of ideas that started with the June 2019 anti-extradition law protests and ended with the enactment of the National Security and National Anthem Laws a year later. At the center of these battles was the "One Country, Two Systems" principle. By June 2020, the meaning of that principle was highly contested, with Chinese authorities taking decisive steps to implement their own understanding of the principle and its normative foundations , and the international community taking countermeasures. All of this occurred well before the 2047 end of the 1985 Sino-British Joint Declaration (中英联合声明) that had been the blueprint for the return of Hong Kong to China. Between these events, global actors battled for control of the narrative and of the meaning of the governing principles that were meant to frame the scope and character of Hong Kong's autonomy within China. The book critically examines the conflict of words between Hong Kong protesters, the Chinese central and local authorities, and important elements of the international community. This decisive discursive contest paralleled the fighting for control of the streets and that pitted protesters and the international community that supported them against the central authorities of China and Hong Kong local authorities. In the end the Chinese central authorities largely prevailed in the discursive realm as well as on the streets. Their victory was aided, in part by the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. But their triumph also produced the seeds of a new and potentially stronger international constitutional discourse that may reduce the magnitude and scope of that success. These essays were written as the events unfolded. Together the essays analytically chronicle the discursive battles that were fought, won and lost, between June 2019 and June 2020. Without an underlying political or polemical agenda, the essays retain the freshness of the moment, reflecting the uncertainties of the time as events unfolded. What was won on the streets of Hong Kong from June to December 2019, the public and physical manifestation of a principled internationalist and liberal democratic narrative of self-determination, and of civil and political rights, was lost by June 2020 within a cage of authoritative legality legitimated through the resurgence of the normative authority of the state and the application of a strong and coherent expression of the principled narrative of its Marxist-Leninist constitutional order. Ironically enough, both political ideologies emerged stronger and more coherent from the conflict, each now better prepared for the next.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Sir Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949943030
• Artikelnr.: 62245718

Autorenporträt

Larry Catá Backer is a founding member of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics. He holds an appointment at Pennsylvania State University where he serves as the W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and International Affairs (B.A. Brandeis University; M.P.P. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Columbia University). He teaches and researches in the areas of economic globalization, international affairs, global governance, and on Party-State systems, including China and Cuba, and has worked on international instruments for global governance of business enterprises. He teaches courses in Corporate Law, Corporate Social Responsibility, multinational corporations, international institutions, as well as on law and religion and constitutional law. He has lectured in South America, Europe and Asia, and has organized graduate programs in Cuba. His work on Cuba includes Cuban corporations and cooperatives, Cuban regional trade policies, the governance structures of the Cuban Communist Party, and the indigenization of Cuban ethnicity. He has written extensively on the development of the theory and practice of the Party-State system in China, including on issues of Chinese constitutionalism and the role of the Chinese Communist Party. His short essays on many of these topics may be found on his blogsite: "Law at the End of the Day."