HistoryPre-1980In 1856, then governor Sir John Bowring proposed that the constitution of the Legislative Council be changed to increase membership…
HistoryFrom 1980s until the HandoverSome democratic reform began in 1984. Following the historic meeting in 1979 between Deng Xiaoping and then governor Murray MacLehose,…
HistoryPost-1997Under what Beijing called the ‘one country, two systems’ model, the move towards greater democracy has stalled. The Legislative Council…