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Mark Elvin, 19 August 1993
The Fate of Hong Kong
by Gerald Segal.
Simon and Schuster, 256 pp., £16.99, September 1993,0 671 71169 5 Show More
by Gerald Segal.
Simon and Schuster, 256 pp., £16.99, September 1993,
The End of Hong Kong: The Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat
by Robert Cottrell.
Murray, 244 pp., £19.99, April 1993,0 7195 4992 2 Show More
by Robert Cottrell.
Murray, 244 pp., £19.99, April 1993,
“... was a joke whose far from trivial point retains a certain wry resonance after almost thirty years. Robert Cottreil’s The End of Hong Kong is a different proposition from Segal’s book. It is a detailed, well-written and basically plausible reconstruction of the negotiations between Britain and China that eventually led to the Joint Declaration of ... ”