A Publish-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997-2019 by Simon Younger

“After Autonomy: A Publish-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997-2019 by Daniel F. Vukovich. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. XIV, 175pp. US$109.99 (Paperback). ISBN: 9789811949852″
Simon Younger
The China Overview, Vol. 24, no. 3 (August 2024), 305 – 308
Printed in August 2024

E book Overview:  Hong Kong
is useless, lengthy dwell Hong Kong. That’s a technique of capturing the thesis of Daniel
Vukovich’s new guide, After Autonomy: A Publish-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover. For there should be a dying to carry a autopsy and life after
autonomy. The autonomy he refers to is that of Hong Kong from Mainland
China, as entrenched by the Fundamental Regulation. What comes subsequent, he hopes, is the integration
of Hong Kong and Mainland China in an egalitarian method that’s attentive to
the wants of individuals on each side of the border.

    Vukovich
has written an essential guide about Hong Kong, at a essential time. It’s
beneficial studying for all those that care about Hong Kong’s future. Greater than
a commentary on the 2019 protests and unrest, the guide displays on the
significance of 2019 alongside the historic trajectory of Hong Kong’s progress
and evolution. Aware of being labelled as belonging to both the “yellow”
or “blue” camps – the superficial and divisive labels utilized in public discourse
after the 2014 Occupy Central protests – Vukovich takes neither facet. As an alternative,
he writes a “inexperienced guide” (p. 6), a mélange of yellow and blue…Please contact Prof. Younger for a full copy of the overview.