Hong Kong's post-1997 transformation in perspective: review article *.

From: Pacific Affairs | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

There are three broad perspectives on Hong Kong's history or current development. The first is Sinocentric, which emphasizes the Opium Wars, the national humiliations and losses of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the glorious resumption of sovereignty over the territory in 1997; good examples are the PRC state-sponsored histories Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong and Twentieth-Century Hong Kong (both in Chinese), commissioned and published in the run-up to 1997. The second is Eurocentric, privileging the economic, political and cultural interests of the British and ...

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