Dr Wong Yiu-chung is associate professor in the Department of Political Science. He was born in Shanghai; grew up in Hong Kong; educated in mainland China, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, France, United States, Australia; degrees in philosophy, sociology and politics; academic interests changing from (early years) Popperian evolutionary epistemology to Dependency theory and Marxism to democratization and democracy in the 21st century; intellectual influences by Karl Popper, Bertrand Russell, Raymond Aron, Marxism, Leung Shu-ming, and Hu Shi; married with three children, one daughter and two sons; published about ten books mainly on Chinese and Hong Kong politics, current affairs, essays and philosophy; hobbies including reading, playing tennis and hiking; the most regrettable thing in life: can't play any musical instrument; the most unforgettable quotation: "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair"  (Bertrand Russell, Autobiography).

His research interests are political reform in China, China (mainland)-Taiwan-Hong Kong triangular relationships, democratic transition in China mainland and Hong Kong and China's modernization.

His teaching responsibilities include Introduction to Political Science, Hong Kong Today, Hong Kong-Central relationships, Taiwan: Society and Politics, Political Thought, etc.

Publications | Top

Books

From Deng Xioaping to Jiang Zemin: Two Decades of Political Reform in the People’s Republic of China, New York: University Press of America, 2005, 361 pages.

"One Country, Two Systems" in Crisis: Hong Kong's Transformation since the Handover (ed.), Lanham (Maryland): Lexington Books, 2004, 244 pages.

China: Fifty Years in Review-A Hong Kong Perspective (ed), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, February 2000, 253 pages.

Social and Political Commentaries on Contemporary China, Hong Kong: Pai Shing Cultural Enterprises Limited, 1992, 349 pages.

China's Student Movement: Retrospect and Prospect, Hong Kong: Youth Literary Publishing House, 1990, 95 pages.

People's Republic of China: Forth Years in Review (eds. with Professor Kwok Siu-tong), Hong Kong: Pai-shing Cultural Enterprise Ltd., 1990, 303 pages.

People's Republic of China: Thirty Years in Review (ed.), Hong Kong: Acta Publishing Company, 1979, 210 pages.

Articles and Book Chapters

"Education Reform in Hong Kong: Through Road Model and Its Societal Consequences", (with Dr Anita YK Poon), in International Review of Education (UNESCO), forthcoming.

"'Super-paradox' or 'Leninist integration': the Politics of Legislating Article 23 of the Basic Law in the Post-handover Hong Kong SAR", in Asian Perspective, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2006, pp. 65-95.

“Hong Kong’s 2004 Legislative Council Elections: the Withering of the Democratic Party” in Asian Affairs, No. 24, March 2005, pp.7-22.

"Corporation, Civil Society and Democratization in Contemporary China" (with Dr. Che-po Chan), in China Report, April/July, Vol. 38 (2), 2002, pp. 233-256.

"Rethinking the Democratic Transition in Hong Kong: Some Methodological and Substantive Issues" in Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 11 (32), 2002, pp. 581-600.

"Post-handover Politics in Hong Kong: Institutional Changes, Legitimacy Crisis and China's Intervention" in Asian Thought and Society, January, 2001, Vol. 22 (76): 51-67.

"From Political Reform to Administrative Reform - A Macro Analysis of China's Political Reform", in China: Fifty Years in Review-A Hong Kong Perspective, 2000, pp.43-61.

"Captive Colony", in The World Today, Aug/Sept 2000, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp 19-22. 

"The Chance of Peaceful Reunification after the Taiwan Presidential Election", in Economic Journal Monthly, No. 277, April 2000, pp. 20-23. 

"Corporalism and Civil Society in the People's Republic of China: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications", (with C. P. Chan), Working Paper Series, No. 99 (2/00),  Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, Lingnan University, April 2000, 30 pages. 

"Cross Straits Relationships: The Changing Role of Hong Kong", in Professor Wu Wei-chun (ed.),  Hong Kong's Status and Functions in Taiwan Straits Relationships After 1st July 1997, Hong Kong: Centre for Asian Studies Chu Hai College, March 1999, pp. 38-53. 

"Restructuring the Party-state Polity: China's Political Structural Reform in the 1980s", in Asian Perspective, Vol. 22, No. 3, December 1998, pp. 134-167. 

"Crisis of Governance in Hong Kong: One Year After Reversion to China", in Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 491-496. 

"The Two-faced Tung Chee-hwa", in Security Dialogue (Norway), Vol. 28(3), September, 1997, pp. 380-382. 

"China's Political Reform: Retrospect and Prospect", in Penny Chan (ed.), The Dynamics of the Four Chinese Societies, Hong Kong: Wide Angle Press, May 1997, pp. 99-116. 

"The Global Democratizatioin Wave and the Political Development of Hong Kong", in Penny Chan (ed.), The Dynamics of the Four Chinese Societies, Hong Kong: Wide Angle Press, May 1997, pp. 145-162. 

Conference Papers

"China's Political Reform under the Leadership of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao" presented in the International Disciplinary Conference on 'Lessons from History' held on 9-10 June 2006, organized by the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lingnan University.

"Societal Stability and Political Reform: Chinese Politics in the 1990s", a paper presented at the international conference on 'Regional Governance, Greater China in the 21st Century' organized by the Politics Department, Durham University, UK, on 24-25 October 2003.

"Where Does China's Political Reform Lead To?", a talk delivered in a China Forum at the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge, UK on 27th October 2003.

“‘One Country, Two Systems’ in Practice: An Analysis of Six Cases”, paper to be presented in the biannual conference of Chinese Studies Association of Australia, to be held in the Australian National University, Cannbera, from 5^th July to 8^th July 2001.

"The Two Conceptions of Political Reform in the Reform Era in China", paper presented in the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 12 - 16 August 2000. 

"Corporatism, Civil Society and Democratisation in Contemporary China", paper presented at  the roundtable session of the Asian and Asian American Section at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association held in Chicago from 6th August to 10th August 1999. 

"Cross Straits relationships: Hong Kong's changing role after 1st July 1997" presented at the conference on Hong Kong's Status and Functions in the Taiwan Straits Relationships organized by the Centre of Hong Kong and Macau, Academy of Social Sciences of Guangdong and Centre of Asian Pacific Studies, Chu Hai College of Hong Kong from 26th to 28th December 1997 at Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. 

"Restructuring the party/state/society relations: China's political reform in the 1980s", presented at the 5th Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, University of Adelaide, 16-18 July 1997. 

Book Reviews | Top

A book review on Ming Xia's The Dual Developmental State: Development Strategy and Institutional Arrangements for China's Transition, in China Review International, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2003, pp. 277-279.

A book review on Kuan Hsin-chi, Lau Siu-kai, Louie Kin-shuen and Timothy Wong Ka-ying (eds.), Power Transfer and Election Politics-The First Legislative Election in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 1, April 2001, pp. 104-107.

A book review on Ralph Schroeder, ed. Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization, in Contemporary Sociology, May 2000, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 560-562.

A book review on Chris Patten's East and West entitled The Last Governor, Asian Values and China's Uniqueness, in Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. No. 22, 1999, pp. 557-559.

A book review on He Baogang's The Democratization of China, in Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, No. 14, Summer 1999, pp. 229-236.

A book review on C.K. Cheung's Market Liberalism-American Foreign Policy Toward China, in American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1999, pp. 303-305.

"Modern Chinese Social Change and Intellectual Current", (in Chinese), by Professor Cheung Tak-shing (CUHK), in Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, No. 13, Winter 1998, pp.211-215. (no volume number) 

"The Golden Needle-The Biography of Frederick Stewart" by Dr. Gillian Bickley, in Asian Studies Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 529-531. 

"The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order" (in Chinese) in Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, Autumn, 1997, No. 10, pp. 154-160. 

Teaching Subjects | Top

Academic Year:  2008-2009:
1st Term:	POL214	Government and Politics of HOng Kong
	POL215	Taiwan: Society and Politics
2nd Term:	POL101	Introduction to Political Science
	POL217/GEB217	Modern Political Ideologies