商品簡介
Based on the award-winning Chinese title, this updated English edition presents an in-depth account of the lengthy and often contentious discussions between China and Britain regarding the Hong Kong handover. Drawing on now declassified official government documents, it provides a careful analysis of events from the 1970s to 1997, which shaped Hong Kong’s future.
作者簡介
Gary CHEUNG
Has been a journalist and writer since the 1990s. He worked as a reporter at Sing Tao Daily, Overseas Chinese Daily, Yazhou Zhoukan, and the South China Morning Post. He mainly covered political news, including those related to Hong Kong’s handover and post-1997 development. He was political editor at the South China Morning Post and assistant editor-in-chief of Ming Pao. He is the author of Hong Kong’s Watershed: The 1967 Riots and its Chinese edition《六七暴動:香港戰後歷史的分水嶺》. The Chinese edition won the Hong Kong Book Prize co-organised by RTHK and the Hong Kong Publishing Federation in 2013. The Chinese edition of this title,《英國檔案中的香
港前途問題》,won the Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards 2023,organised by the Hong Kong Publishing Professionals Society.
目次
Chapter 1
British Deliberations on the Future of Hong Kong
Chapter 2
Murray MacLehose’s Historic Meeting with Deng Xiaoping
Chapter 3
Tussle over a Site in Tin Shui Wai
Chapter 4
Margaret Thatcher’s Visit to China
Chapter 5
The Tortuous Sino-British Negotiations on the Future of Hong
Kong
Chapter 6
Debate on Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong
Chapter 7
The Tremendous Impact of the Tiananmen Square Crackdown
Chapter 8
Removal of David Wilson as Governor
Chapter 9
Sino-British Row over Chris Patten’s Electoral Reform Package
Chapter 10
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