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This weighty monograph offers an authoritative academic critique of the HKSAR Government's performance in various policy areas and state - society interactive topical dimensions under the Tsang years from 2005 to 2012. By inviting contributions from a number of scholars specialising in different research disciplines, the volume in 18 chapters covers a lot of key issues and public policy areas that constitute a very rich combination of analytical narratives from multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Bringing together a collection of twenty major essays, this book offers a fresh perspective of evaluating the performance and achievements of China in the Hu - Wen era in terms of economic development, the establishment of a rudimentary social security system and her rising international status, etc.; the new opportunities and challenges facing China; and how will the likely successors Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang handle those opportunities and challenges. New policy programmes will also be discussed in greater detail.

This book harbors a more forward prospecting approach with 13 substantive chapters yielding informed analysis and insightful interpretations of various key issues. The core subjects range from legal foundation of Chinese democracy, middle-class politics, Internet based-democratization debates and pro-democratic mobilizations, civic society activism etc.