I: Education and the Social Context; 1: The Decolonization of Hong Kong Education; 2: Hong Kong Education within Historical Processes; 3: Hong Kong Education in an International Context: The Impact of External Forces; II: Education and Politics; 4: Educational Policymaking in Hong Kong: The Changing Legitimacy; 5: Preparing Pupils as Citizens of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong: An Analysis of Curriculum Change and Control during the Transition Period; III: Education and Social Stratification; 6: Egalitarianism and the Allocation of Secondary School Places in Hong Kong; 7: The Schooling of Girls in Hong Kong: Progress and Contradictions in the Transition; IV: Educational Issues: Language and Labor; 8: Cantonese, English, or Putonghua-Unresolved Communicative Issue in Hong Kong's Future; 9: The Teaching of Putonghua in Hong Kong Schools: Language Education in a Changing Economic and Political Context; 10: Educational Expansion and the Labor Force; V: Comparative Perspectives: One Country, Two Educational Systems; 11: Pressure for Educational Excellence in China: Implications for Education in Hong Kong; 12: On the Characteristics, Strong Points, and Shortcomings of Education in Hong Kong: A Mainland Chinese Educator's View of Education in Hong Kong; 13: Education in Hong Kong and China: Toward Convergence?.