Introduction - Hong Kong's Uneasy Passage to Chinese Sovereignty, Ming K. Chan and Gerard A. Postiglione; Democracy Derailed - Realpolitik in the Making of the Hong Kong Basic Law, 1985-90, Ming K. Chan; The MacLehose-Youde Years - Balancing the "Three-Legged Stool", 1971-86, James T.H. Tang and Frank Ching; Judicial Development of Hong Kong on the Eve of 1 July 1997, Berry F. Hsu; The Decolonisation of Hong Kong Education, Gerard A. Postiglione; Education in Hong Kong and China - Toward Convergence?, Julian Y.

M. Leung; Hong Kong in an International Migration System, Ronald Skeldon; New York is not Hong Kong - the Little Hong Kong That Never Was, Peter Kwong; Economic Integration of Hong Kong and Guangdong in the 1990s, Yun-wing Sung; Socioeconomic Centre, Political Periphery - Hong Kong's Uncertain Future Toward the 21st Century, Alvin Y. So and Reginald Yin-wang Kwok.