Volume 44, Number 10 · June 12, 1997
Holding Out in Hong Kong
By Ian Buruma
Kowloon Tong
by Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin, 243 pp., $23.00
Hong Kong Remembers
by Sally Blyth and Ian Wotherspoon, Introduction by the Rt. Honorable the Baroness Thatcher
Oxford University Press, 285 pp., $39.95
The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal
by Mark Roberti
John Wiley, 346 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Red Flag over Hong Kong
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, by David Newman, by Alvin Rabushka
Chatham House, 196 pp., $17.95 (paper)
The Hong Kong Advantage
by Michael J. Enright, by Edith E. Scott, by David Dodwell
Oxford University Press, 352 pp., $29.95
Flicking through the April issue of the Hong Kong Tatler, a glossy high life magazine modeled after the London Tatler, I was reminded of a story I once heard about the Rothschild house in Paris. When Victor Rothschild visited the Avenue de Marigny in 1944, to see what was left of his cousin's mansion after four years of German occupation, he found not only Baron Robert's old butler, Felix, on the premises, but also a fat guestbook kept by the Luftwaffe officers to record their social life. He saw to his consternation that their French guests were exactly the same people whom the Rothschilds had entertained before the war.
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