Evaluation of the C. Y. Leung Administration
Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9789629374310
Description: “Did C. Y. Leung achieve his goals? Did he perform his duty to the Hong Kong people as their third Chief Executive?”

To answer these questions, this book presents a rational, research-based critique of the C. Y. Leung Administration (2012 - 2017). It is a sweeping and original publication that covers various aspects of governance, including politics, economics, healthcare, human rights, civil service, housing, urban planning, youth, and Legislative Council elections as well as Hong Kong’s relationships with Taiwan, Mainland China, and Western countries. Written by a team of expert authors from various fields, this book is one of the first comprehensive academic discourses on the issues this administration faced while in office.

The first chapter sets the tone of the book, with the subsequent chapters providing additional details confirming the general conclusions of the authors concerning the C. Y. Leung Administration. Written for scholars and community members interested in Hong Kong governance, this anthology presents a complex and comprehensive critique of one specific Chief Executive’s period of influence and how his administration’s policies still affect the Hong Kong community today.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Overall Evaluation of the C. Y. Leung Administration; title: 2. Politicisation of the Civil Service under the C. Y. Leung Administration: Unprecedented Control; title: 3. The Implications of the Legislative Oaths Cases on Hong Kong’s Rule of Law; title: 4. Sources of Electoral Support for Pro-Establishment Parties in the 2016 Legislative Council Election; title: 5. Human Rights Recession under C. Y. Leung; title: 6. Mainland-Hong Kong Relations: The Growing Conflict; title: 7. Hong Kong-Taiwan Relations in the C. Y. Leung Administration: The End of Strategic Ambiguity?; title: 8. Hong Kong’s Role as a Mediator between China and the West: Changes under C. Y. Leung’s Administration; title: 9. What Changed from the Tung Administration to the Leung Administration? A Retrospective Assessment of Hong Kong’s External Relations; title: 10. Hong Kong’s Economic Situation under C. Y. Leung; title: 11. Technology-based Development and Heightened Integration with Mainland China: C. Y. Leung’s Economic Ambition; title: 12. Are Experiences Gained by Hong Kong in East-West Turbulences Being Squandered by China and the World?; title: 13. Economic Localism in the World’s Freest Economy: Public Discourse Concerning Chinese Economic Influence in Hong Kong during the C. Y. Leung Administration; title: 14. The Making of Anti-Mainland Protests into a Social Movement for Independence: Constraints and Potential; title: 15. The Anti-National Education Movement in Hong Kong: A Struggle for Freedom of Thought and One Country， Two Systems; title: 16. Youth Policy during the C. Y. Leung Administration; title: 17. The Controversy over Liberal Studies and Youth Activism under the C. Y. Leung Administration; title: 18. Urban and Regional Planning: Continued Blindness to Local and Regional Ecological and Social Contexts during the C. Y. Leung Administration; title: 19. Housing in the Era of C. Y. Leung; title: 20. Housing for the Poor; title: 21. The Health Care Conundrum; title: 22. C. Y. Leung’s Policy Address Agenda and Characteristics: Analysis and Comparison; title: 23. The Hong Kong Catholic Church under C. Y. Leung; title: Concluding Observations; title: About the Contributors