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The Story Of Hong Kong's Social, Political, And Economic Development Is A Remarkable Chinese-british Chronicle. This Book Contains First-hand Accounts Of Life And Times In Hong Kong From Before The Second World War To The End Of Its Life As A Colonial Territory. Over Six Decades, Hong Kong Has Been Transformed From A Sleepy Colonial Backwater, To An Overcrowded, Refugee Haven Fraught With Health And Welfare Problems, To A Shining Model Of Laissez-faire Capitalism, With An Exemplary Public Housing Programme, A Modicum Of Democracy, And A Thriving, Hybrid Cultural Life. The Contributors To This Book Recall The Important Events Along The Rocky Path To Development, Including The Housing Crisis Of The 1950s, The 1967 Anti-government Riots, The Sino-british Talks Of The 1980s, The Effect On The Hong Kong People Of The Tiananmen Square Protests In 1989, And The Contentious Politics Of The Transition To Chinese Rule In 1997. Foreword / Baroness Thatcher -- Revolution And Refugees: The 1940s And 1950s. Lady May Ride: Hong Kong Past. Lau Kam Man: The East River Guerrillas. Dorothy Lee: Release And Rehabilitation. Cheung Yan Lung: Rural Politics. Mary Bloch: South From Tianjin. Sir S.y. Chung

Author

Sally Blyth and Ian Wotherspoon

Publisher

Hong Kong ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195877687

Subjects

History, Humanities