A Profile of Hong Kong
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A Profile of Hong Kong

During Times Past, Times Current, and Its Quest of a Future Maintaining Hong Kong's Liberty

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eBook - ePub

A Profile of Hong Kong

During Times Past, Times Current, and Its Quest of a Future Maintaining Hong Kong's Liberty

About this book

A Profile of Hong Kong provides a detailed history of colonialism in Hong Kong that still reverberates today. Despite this tumultuous history, there are many things that make Hong Kong special and worth fighting for. For over 100 years, the Hong Kong people have been fighting for liberty despite the constant oppression from other countries. Bruce Herschensohn shows how years of riots and protests demonstrate the resilience of the Hong Kong people and the determination to make their country belong to them. With compelling firsthand accounts, A Profile of Hong Kong explores the history of this political entity from a 99-year treaty to the handover to the recent powerful protests for liberty. Herschensohn emphasizes the irony of the Chinese government coming to Hong Kong, the majority of whose people had fled from that same government, and how these very people are once again facing oppression from this repressive government. Herschensohn includes through descriptions of the changes for Hong Kong people that were put into place 100 years ago as well as descriptions of major international figures in the complicated history of Hong Kong. While there are large effects of other countries on Hong Kong, Hong Kong has also had effects on other countries. "Once you have visited Hong Kong. it would never stop visiting you."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Bruce Herschensohn 1932-2020
  6. A Note to the Reader from the Author
  7. 1 Looking Centuries Back in Hong Kong
  8. 2 Wars
  9. 3 Building Modern Hong Kong
  10. 4 The Cultural Revolutions of 1966-1976
  11. 5 Margaret Thatcher vs. Deng Xiaoping
  12. 6 Hong Kong People in Public Demonstrations of Protest
  13. 7 1997 Arriving Early
  14. 8 The Language of Liberty: Two Giant Hong Kong People
  15. 9 How Hong Kong Became a Beacon of Liberty
  16. 10 The Tiananmen Square Massacre
  17. 11 Tiananmen Square Postscript
  18. 12 How Britain Had its First Name of “Great” Re-established
  19. 13 Two Side-Shows Away from Center Stage
  20. 14 The Midnight of Broken Promises
  21. 15 Hong Kong Without a Net
  22. 16 A Landslide for Liberty on More than One Day of Thanksgiving
  23. 17 Times Ahead
  24. 18 What the PRC Did to Hong Kong in 1997 May Await Taiwan in 2047
  25. 19 NOLA
  26. Epilogue
  27. Glossary
  28. Another Note to the Reader from the Author