This book looks at the economic and financial future of Hong Kong. The discussion covers comparisons between Hong Kong's economic growth and that of other Asian newly industrialized economies and economic experience since the 1980s.
Biography
Y. F. Luk is lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance of the University of Hong Kong and editor at the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research. He previously was lecturer in the Department of Economics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Luk received his A.B. degree in economics from the University of Chicago and his doctorate in economics from Cornell University. His academic interests are monetary economics, banking and finance, and international finance. His recent research has focused on money and banking in mainland China and the Hong Kong economy. Gerrit W. Gong holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS and has directed the CSIS Asian Studies Program since 1989. Dr. Gong's government experience includes service in the U.S. State Department as Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Michael H. Armacost and Special Assistant to U.S. Ambassadors Winston Lord and James Lilley at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. He was a fellow in Sino-Soviet Studies at CSIS from 1981 to 1985. He has also served on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Oxford University. He is author of The Standard of Civilization in International Society (Clarendon Press, 1984) and has published articles in foreign policy journals in both the United States and Asia, including A Cross-Strait Summit? Some Observations from Washington, in the January 16, 1995, issue of the China Times in Taipei; The Southeast Asian Boom with Keith W. Eirinberg; Defining a New Consensus for U.S. China Policy, in U.S. China Policy: Building a New Consensus ; and China's Fourth Revolution, The Washington Quarterly Winter 1994. In May 1994, in testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Dr. Gong presented Defining a New Consensus for U.S. China Policy. Erik R. Peterson oversees the development and execution of the Center's broad-based research agenda. He also directs the CSIS publications program, which includes the Washington Papers and Significant Issues series, and serves as editor in chief of the Center's journal, The Washington Quarterly Peterson came to the Center from Kissinger Associates, where he was director of research and head of the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Among his writings are Looming Collision of Capitalisms? The Washington