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Many
officials
description of their work.
achievements.
were
unreserved in their
They
were proud of their
Contrary to my expectation, there was
surprisingly little incantation, though there were a lot of
jargons and enumeration of points. We were referred to as
香港政府官員。 There were exceptions, of course. The notable exception being a Mr Yu Shouhai (于寿海先生).
He appeared to me to be
informed person.
food.
The only
the best dressed and the worst
The only thing Mr Yu talked about was
person he apparently respected was Harry
Fang. There were a couple of patriotic outbursts and snide
references, made in
apparent jest, to's working
for the former Port Arthur, a place renamed but was a
former Japanese colony, and bore similarities to Hong Kong!
5.
When questioned on China's reform measures, the
officials we
its Own thing
eg:
talked to held the belief that China would do
its own way unswerved by outside influence,
(a) China's economic reforms took place before
political
reform.
The former took place as far
back as 1978. Unless people had food to eat, no
reforms would be successful.
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