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The imminent Hong Kong handover to China is expected to affect many arenas -- from the territory's trade to homelessness to literature and education. Read The Post's series on the issues everyone will be following after the July 1 handover.

HONG KONG'S STUDENTS LEARN THE ABC'S OF TAKEOVER
Among Hong Kong's many social problems, perhaps no area is more in need of immediate attention than Hong Kong's overburdened and highly regulated education system.

VISIONS OF A CAPITAL FUTURE
Hordes of twenty- and thirty-something investment bankers have been drawn to Hong Kong by its unruly capitalistic ways. But will they—and Hong Kong—thrive as well under Chinese rule?

CHINA TO BUTTRESS HONG KONG POLICE
When the British Royal Navy and marines pull out on July 1, the police force alone must maintain the peace and pursue the smugglers—and do so relying on its own arsenal.

CHANGE OF NO CONSEQUENCE
In the real Hong Kong, an immigrant city of strivers and scrapers and survivors, the handover is expected to amount to little more than a blip on the radar screen of daily life.

CHILDREN RACE HONG KONG'S DEADLINE
Pint-size fugitives from China are being brought to Hong Kong on motorboats in the dead of night by "snakehead" smugglers.

NEXT LEADER'S ALLIES FRET OVER IMAGE IN THE WEST
The honeymoon did not last long for Tung Chee-hwa, the businessman Beijing selected to run this territory when it reverts to Chinese control.

CHINA SHOWS CONCERN IN HONG KONG
China's current leaders fear Hong Kong could be used as an effective base for sowing subversion throughout their country.

HONG KONG'S LEGISLATURE-IN-WAITING
Of all China's plans, none has evoked more international condemnation than the move to abolish the elected legislature.

FOR HONG KONG, LITERATURE IMITATES LIFE
Fiction writers and publishing houses are hurrying to cash in on the handover fever, rushing into print a dizzying array of new titles.

HONG KONG'S HOMELESS
ARE NEARLY INVISIBLE
Hong Kongers are demanding
that the incoming Chinese administration take a more interventionist role in helping
those in need.

UNCERTAIN EXILE FOR CHINESE DISSIDENTS
At least 100 dissidents in Hong Kong are believed to be in danger of arrest and imprisonment if they stay beyond June 30.

HOW LONG HONG KONG A U.S. PARTNER?
The huge investment of American capital and people means that Hong Kong will remain central to U.S. foreign policy.

HONG KONG AND CHINA ALREADY LINKED
In almost every facet of life in Hong Kong—from the boardrooms of Central to the barrooms of Wanchai—China is already there.