Titlebook: Hong Kong’s Transitions, 1842–1997; Judith M. Brown (Beit Professor of Commonwealth Hi Book 1997 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmill

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Book 1997term perspective against the background of earlier turning points in Hong Kong‘s political, economic and social history. It also explores Hong Kong‘s links with China and Britain in this troubled last decade of colonial rule, and offers a basis for assessing the territory‘s possible future as a part

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,The Colony’s Shifting Position in the British Informal Empire in China,hina, their counterparts in the PRC, and the elderly leaders still setting policies today, are only too aware of it.. British negotiators were taken by surprise in 1982 by the strength of Chinese feelings. Clearly, a little history might have helped.

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,Introduction: Hong Kong’s Transitions,l policy has been popularised under the slogan ‘one country, two systems’, a policy which Margaret Thatcher, as British Prime Minister, described as an ‘ingenious idea’ and which China’s paramount leader, the now ailing Deng Xiaoping, saw as ‘a product of dialectical Marxism and historical materialism’..

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,National and International Interests in the Decolonisation of Hong Kong, 1946–97, From the 1980s onwards, it was to develop a symbiotic relationship with Southern China based on investment, management and export services, and outward processing agreements, enhancing both national and international interests in its future.

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,Introduction: Hong Kong’s Transitions, significance, especially for the three parties directly involved: Britain, China and Hong Kong. The Sino-British Joint Declaration of December 1984, the most important set of documents in Hong Kong’s political evolution since the signature of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, has paved the way for thi

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Hong Kong in British Decolonisation, more oppression; but a case much too important to be simply ignored. Hong Kong’s political history makes nonsense of the decolonising process as it is usually imagined. Until after its political future was settled, it underwent no significant constitutional change. It will never travel the colonial

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Government and Politics in Hong Kong: A Colonial Paradox,ra, which had remained little changed until a decade ago. Before the concessions were made in the mid-1980s to allow for a limited degree of public representation and participation, it was an entirely autocratic system. It provided near-absolute power to its head, the Governor, who was appointed by