Volume 41, Number 7 · April 7, 1994
The Battle for Hong Kong
By Jonathan Mirsky
A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong
by Frank Welsh
Kodansha, 624 pp., $32.50
Hong Kong—The first weekend of the Year of the Dog, February 11–13, was not a good one for those of us who live in Hong Kong. The annual fireworks display, sponsored by the Bank of China (in Peking fireworks are banned), was muffled in mist. In Shanghai for his winter break, Deng Xiaoping appeared in public for the first time in a year; television viewers here and in China could see that the doddering, glazed, mumbling eightynine-year-old propped up on each side by one of his daughters was plainly not far from 'seeing Marx'—a prospect which increases uncertainty in Hong Kong about the future.
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