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Review of Kam C. Wong, One Country, Two Systems: Cross-border Crime between Hong Kong and China

New Brunswick, USA and London, UK: Transaction Publishers, 2012. ISBN: 9781412846233, 260 pages

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  1. “One country, two systems,” formulated by Deng Xiaoping, the “paramount leader” of mainland China from 1978 to 1992, provides a constitutional principle of governing Hong Kong. People from the two sides, however, emphasize two different aspects. The mainland stresses the importance of the “one country,” while the elites and ordinary residents in Hong Kong are more interested in the “two systems” part. It should be kept in mind that, although the “one country, two system” formula is a temporary policy designed to deal with the political and economic differences between the mainland and Hong Kong, the final goal of this formula is achieving unification.

  2. The 14K triad gang is one of Hong Kong’s oldest criminal organizations, dating from the Chinese civil war and its aftermath. For more information, please see Chu, Y. K. (2002). The triads as business. Routledge, pp. 174–179.

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Ying, X. Review of Kam C. Wong, One Country, Two Systems: Cross-border Crime between Hong Kong and China . Asian Criminology 9, 331–332 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-013-9178-y

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