Hong Kong and the Lapse to China.

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This paper is a review of three works by foreign correspondents long stationed in Hong Kong. It discusses the uniqueness of Hong Kong and the machinations producing the 1984 Anglo-Sino Agreement and changes through to 1997 and beyond. The paper describes the way in which the correspondents criticize the British diplomatic performance, the Hong Kong business elite and the terms of the Agreement.

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"Three Studies of Hong Kong and the 1997 Lapse to Mainland China. Through the 1990s, much that was published on Hong Kong centered on the impending Communist Chinese takeover of the colony with the end of its British jurisdiction. The three works discussed, here, present accounts of events leading up to the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (PRC), all of them by foreign correspondents of long exposure to Hong Kong, in efforts to explain a unique city and its possible future, as part of the PRC. Kevin Rafferty's volume, City on the Rocks - Hong Kong's Uncertain Future, is the most readable and detailed account."

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