Lau Siu-kai

TL;DR: In the urban industrial setting of Hong Kong, Chinese family has taken the form of utilitarianistic familism as mentioned in this paper, which is characterized by primacy of familial interests, perception of the social-political context as the arena for the pursuit of family interests, utilitarianistic considerations in the structuring of intra-familial relationships, nonsignificance of social status of the familial group, and utilitarianistic recruitment of familial members and the resultant vagueness of the boundary of the family group.

TL;DR: Based on three large-scale sample surveys in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, this paper delineated the relation between traditional political orientations and political participation and found that Chinese in the Mainland are most traditional.

TL;DR: The democratic reforms initiated by Chris Patten, the last colonial governor of Hong Kong, accelerated party formation and competition in the last few years of British rule as discussed by the authors, and since then measures of democratization initiated by the British in anticipation of their withdrawal in 1997 made available a portion of political power for public contest.