"This highly sophisticated study, drawing upon the results of a carefully designed survey as well as interview data, gives readers a picture of a new generation whose education has stimulated critical thinking, curiosity and forms of patriotism that are t

"Greg Fairbrother has produced a rare and insightful work which will be of enormous interest not only to academics, but also to policymakers and practitioners... he is able to show both how and why the regime has been successful in its efforts to recover

Gregory P. Fairbrother is a research associate affiliated with the School of Foundations in Education and the Centre for Citizenship Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.