• DOI:10.1080/23276665.2007.10779329
Corpus ID: 144976098

The First Ten Years of the HKSAR: Civil Society Comes of Age

@article{Chan2007TheFT,
  title={The First Ten Years of the HKSAR: Civil Society Comes of Age},
  author={Elaine Y. Chan and J. Chan},
  journal={Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration},
  year={2007},
  volume={29},
  pages={77 - 99}
}

Elaine Y. Chan, J. Chan

Published 2007

Sociology

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration

Civil society in Hong Kong has gone through an important period of maturity in the ten years since the handover, with 2003 being a watershed. Around 2003, civil society assumed a separate identity, and from that point on it has been active in various aspects on the policy-making scene. This article discusses how civil society has articulated itself: its identity, roles, agenda and agency. Civil society’s self-articulation of its identity and roles reveals three discourses: civil society as a… CONTINUE READING

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