Der Band enthält die Beiträge zu einer Konferenz zum Thema "Hong Kong - 150 days after the handover. One country, two systems", die im November 1997 in Frankfurt stattfand. Inhalt: I. General Developments: Jürgen Domes: Hong Kong after the hand-over to China: background and perspectives. A thematic survey (15-23); Reimund Seidelmann: Hong Kong after 1997: self-determined democratisation and modernization (25-55); Janice Tse: Hong Kong: 150 days after transition (57-61); James Kun-Sen To: Hong Kong - the first 150 days after the transition (63-68); Ronnie C. Chan: Hong Kong and its reunification with China (69-73). II. Political Developments: Institutions, human rights, and the media: Pang-Kwong Li: The democratic transition of Hong Kong: an institutional analysis (77-94); Kin-Sheun Louie: An analysis of the Hong Kong Legislative Council Election of May 1998 (95-113); Heiner Roetz: Confucianism and Human Rights (115-132); Carol Pui-Yee Lai: Questionable beginnings - Hong Kong Press (133-143); Christa Kokotowski: Hong Kong 1997-1998: The hand-over as media-political overkill - comments on the role of the media (145-157). III. Economic Developments: Victor Fung: Hong Kong at the threshold of the twenty-first century (161-170); Tun-Oy Woo: The Asian financial turmoil and the Hong Kong economy (171-215); Markus Taube: The economic significance of Hong Kong for China. The status quo and the position of the European Commission (217-239). IV. Hong Kong and China: Helmut Martin: Between local preservation of Hong Kong identity and Chinese self-understanding in Hong Kong culture (243-260); Martina Johns: Hong Kong and reform policy in the People's Republic of China (261-274); Per Fischer: Political tradition and participation in China. An attempt at interpretation (275-290). V. Hong Kong, the region, and international politics: Gunter Schubert: Taiwan's political future after the return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China - reunification or independence? (293-305); Ting Wai: Complex interdependence and political imperatives: the difficult relations among Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Washington (307-326); Cong Zhang: The difficult relationship between Beijing, Taipei and Washington (327-346); Xuewu Gu: China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: potential conflicts and future perspectives (347-359); Zhao Gancheng: Changes in the Asia-Pacific power constellation: the economic dimension (361-369).