Precarious Balance: Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992 Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992

Name: Precarious Balance: Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992 Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992
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ISBN: 9781563243806

ISBN-10: 1563243806

ISBN-13: 9781563243806

Edition: 1995

Authors: Ming K. Chan, John D. Young

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In three years, Hong Kong will be transformed from a British Crown Colony to a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. That will end a crucial chapter in modern China's humiliation by the West starting from the Opium War which yielded Hong Kong to Britain in 1842. A long history of the two powers' deep mutual mistrust and the helplessness of the Hong Kong people caught in between culminated in the recent Sino-British discord over Hong Kong's democratization and the new airport project.This interdisciplinary volume focuses on major developments in Hong Kong during the past 150 years as a British colony dependent on the China market and populated by Chinese who have…

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List price: $200.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/31/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188



Introduction: Hong Kong's Precarious Balance-150 Years in an Historic Triangle


From Antiforeignism to Popular Nationalism: Hong Kong between China and Britain, 1839-1911


Hong Kong in Sino-British Conflict: Mass Mobilization and the Crisis of Legitimacy, 1912-26


From Nationalistic Confrontation to Regional Collaboration: China-Hong Kong-Britain, 1926-41


Hong Kong in Sino-British Diplomacy, 1926-45


Anti-Chinese Legislation in Hong Kong


World War to Cold War: Hong Kong's Future and Anglo-Chinese Interactions, 1941-55


The Building Years: Maintaining a China-Hong Kong-Britain Equilibrium, 1950-71


The MacLehose-Youde Years: Balancing the Three-Legged Stool, 1971-86


Toward Colonial Sunset: The Wilson Regime, 1987-92