Volume 37, Number 6 · April 12, 1990
The Last Days of Hong Kong
By Ian Buruma
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong Voices
edited by Gerd Balke, with an introduction by Anthony Lawrence
Longman, 288 pp., HK$125
Kowtow!
by William Shawcross
Chatto CounterBlasts, No. 6 64 pp., £2.99
City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future
by Kevin Rafferty
Viking
Hong Kong Countdown
by George Hicks
Writers' and Publishers' Cooperative, 136 pp., $12.50
May 1983: It was exactly seven months after Mrs. Thatcher stumbled and fell on the steps of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing that I arrived in Hong Kong to take up a job. The prime ministerial fall; which preceded a fierce quarrel with Deng Xiaoping about the future of the British colony, was regarded in Hong Kong as a dark omen: a few days later the stock market crashed and the Hong Kong dollar slumped to a point not seen since the riots of 1956.
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