Hong Kong at the Handover

by Bruce Herschensohn

Book Overview

Hong Kong at the Handover explores the days of handover through the words of leading Hong Kong citizens. Bruce Herschensohn utilizes transcribed interviews to tell the story of one of the most important events of this generation: the takeover of a political entity through a 99-year-old treaty. Herschensohn emphasizes the irony of the Chinese government coming to Hong Kong, the majority of whose people had fled from that same government. Throughout...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739101358
• ISBN13: 9780739101353
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"