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Introduction: The long transition, Tai-lok Lui, Stephen W.K. Chiu, and Ray Yep --Theme 1: 'One Country Two Systems' in practice --1. The autonomy of Hong Kong under "One Country, Two Systems", Albert H.Y. Chen 2. The Basic Law in the courts: Learning to live with China and a changing Hong Kong, Danny Gittings 3. Becoming part of one national economy: Maintaining two systems in the midst of the rise of China,--Yun-Wing Sung--Theme 2: Governing post-colonial Hong Kong --4. Stalemate in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong: Disarticulation, fragmentation, and the political battleground of "One Country, Two Systems", --Chor-yung Cheung 5. Advisory politics before and after 1997: In search of a new relationship between state, political society and civil society,-- Brian C.H. Fong 6. "Consultative politics" refined: The precarious development of civic engagement in post-colonial Hong Kong, --Kay C.Y. Lam7.Party underdevelopment in protracted transition, --Ngok Ma --Theme 3: Social mobilization--8. Social mobilization for large-scale protests: From the July 1 demonstration to the Umbrella Movement, --Francis L.F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan 9. Opinion media: From talk radio to internet alternative websites, --Francis L.F.Lee 10. Social media and social mobilization, --Gary Tang 11. Legal mobilization, --Wai Keung Tam 12. Transformative events and their frames andthe repertoires of contention, --Edmund W. Cheng 13. Confrontation, state repression and autonomy of metropolitan Hong Kong: The Umbrella Movement and 1967 Riots compared, Ray Yep --Theme 4: The changing social fabric --14. Growing socio-economic inequalities, Hon-Kwong Lui 15. Ethnic minorities and ethnicity in Hong Kong, Paul OConnor 16.Mainland migrants in Hong Kong, Eric Fong, Jenny X. Li, and Carew C.S.Chan 17.Youth and the changing opportunity structure, Chung Yan Ip 18.Hong Kongs middle class after 1997, Chung Yan Ip and Tai-lok Lui 19.A genealogy of business and politics in Hong Kong, Tak-Wing Ngo 20.The real es