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2. A useful summary of the matter may be read at Yash Ghai, Hong Kong’s New Constitutional Order: The Resumption of Chinese Sovereignty and the Basic Law, 2nd ed. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001), 189–230.
3. Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (1982–1992) (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1994), 3:340.
4. The ideas contained in the chapter are enshrined in the PRC Constitution. See Weiyun Xiao, One Country Two Systems: An Account of the Drafting of the Hong Kong Basic Law (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2001), 4–6. Xiao is a professor of law at Peking University and an authority on PRC constitutional matters. He was educated in law at Leningrad University. He has written extensively on the Basic Law and is considered to be an authority. See, e.g., his co-authored article, “Why the Court of Final Appeal Was Wrong: Comments of the Mainland Scholars on the Judgment of the Court of Final Appeal,” in Hong Kong’s Constitutional Debate: Conflict over Interpretation, ed. Johannes M. M. Chan, H. L. Fu, and Yash Ghai (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001), 53–59. Jiang Zemin, Deng’s successor, upheld Deng Xiaoping Theory as the “Marxism of present-day China.” Quoted in
5. Willem van Kemenade, “China, Hong Kong, Taiwan: Dynamics of a New Empire,” Washington Quarterly 21 (1998): 105, 110.