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Hong Kong Hansard 1980, Governor MacLehose��s speech of 23 October 1980.

79.
Far Eastern Economic Review, The Far Eastern Economic Review Yearbook 1981, 132.

80.
Zhou, Xianggang Ren Xianggang Shi, 119.

81.
Siu, ��Remade in Hong Kong��, 187.

82.
Cantonese rather than pinyin transliteration is used for these terms, as they were used in Hong Kong and gained common currency there.

83.
Lau and Kuan, The Ethos of the Hong Kong Chinese, 178.

84.
Burns and Scott, ��A Profile of the Civil Service��, 30.

85.
Jenkins, ��People �V Hong Kong��s Greatest Asset��, 9�V10.

86.
Lau and Kuan, The Ethos of the Hong Kong Chinese, 189�V95.

87.
Tsang, ��Political Probems Facing the Hong Kong Civil Service in Transition��, 138.

88.
Baker, ��Life in the Cities: The Emergence of Hong Kong Man��, 478.

89.
Faure, ��Reflections on Being Chinese in Hong Kong��, 105.

90.
Concept borrowed from Hughes, Borrowed Place Borrowed Time.


Chapter 14: The Making of a Colonial Paradox
1.
The main arguments for what constitutes the best possible government in the Chinese tradition are substantially based on Tsang, ��Government and Politics in Hong Kong: A Colonial Paradox��, 62�V83.

2.
For Taiwan��s democratisation, see Chao and Myers, The First Chinese Democracy.

3.
Concept first used by Myers and Metzger, in Myers (ed.), Two Societies in Opposition, xviii.

4.
Tsang, ��Strategy for Survival��, 296.

5.
Tsang, A Documentary History of Hong Kong, 152.

6.
Sheridan, China in Disintegration, 204.

7.
Ch��u, Local Government in China Under the Ch��ing, 1.

8.
Grantham, Via Ports, 155�V6.

9.
Drakakis-Smith, ��Housing needs and planning policies for the Asian City �V the lesson from Hong Kong��, 115.

10.
Sweeting, A Phoenix Transformed, 14�V21.

11.
The process did not really start after 1967, as various committees had been set up before the riots to inquire into, for example, local government. See, for example, Hong Kong Government, Report of the Working Party on Local Administration.

12.
McKinsey and Company, Strengthening the Machinery of Government Volume 1

�V Report.

13.
Yuying, ��Yingguo de fazhi jingshen��, 423.

14.
Yu Sheng, ��Xianggang xiaoji��, Qiantu, vol.2, no.5, 1 May 1934.

15.
Tsang, A Documentary History of Hong Kong, 148.

16.
Lethbridge, Stability and Change, 38.

17.
Ibid.

18.
CO129/80, ��Hong Kong Cadetship��, 2 July 1861.

19.
Tsang, A Documentary History of Hong Kong, 167.

20.
CO882/6, ��Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, and Federated Malay States Police Probationers��, February 1907.

21.
CO129/120, Sir Richard MacDonnell to Lord Carnarvon, despatch 183, 7 January 1867.

22.
CO131/116, Minutes of Executive Council meeting, 2 August 1946.

23.
Hong Kong Government, Second Report of the Commission of Inquiry under Sir Alastair Blair-Kerr, 2.

24.
CO1030/1386, Burgess to McLeod 354, 18 April 1960.

25.
CO1030/1387, ��Sixth report of the Standing Committee on Corruption��, 29 December 1961.

26.
CO1030/1386, Black to McLeod 175, 26 February 1960.

27.
Tsang, A Documentary History of Hong Kong, 171.

28.
Hong Kong Hansard 1969, 67�V8 (address by Governor Trench on 26 February 1969).

29.
CO1030/1386, Solicitor General to Colonial Secretary, minute 20, 11 March 1961.

30.
Lo, Corruption and Politics in Hong Kong and China, 89.

31.
Second Report of the Commission of Inquiry under Sir Alastair Blair-Kerr, 42�V52.

32.
Hong Kong Hansard 1973�V74, 15 (address by Governor Sir Murray MacLehose on 17 October 1973).

33.
Hong Kong Government, Annual Report on the ICAC for 1983, 17.

34.
Grantham, Via Ports, 156.

35.
Youngson, Hong Kong Economic Growth and Policy, 126.

36.
Hong Kong Hansard 1972�V3, 4 (Governor��s address, 18 October 1972).

37.
Tsang, ��China and Political Reform in Hong Kong��, 69.

38.
FO371/63318, Boyce (Peking) to Chancery (Nanking), 30 December 1946.

39.
See Chapter 11, and Tsang, Democracy Shelved.

40.
FO371/99251, Oakeshott��s minutes of 31 March 1952.

41.
There is, however, one businessman who reported a meeting with Zhou Enlai in which Zhou warned against the British allowing Hong Kong to attain ��dominion status��. This is not a reliable account of what Zhou actually said. For an analysis of this incident, see Tsang, Appointment with China, 117�V8.

42.
CO1030/1300, Black to Poynton, top secret and personal letter, 30 October 1962.

43.
CO1030/1620, Trench to Wallace, confidential letter, 26 May 1965.

44.
CO1030/1620, Bollard (Foreign Office) to Carter (Colonial Office), secret letter, 20 August 1965.

45.
FCO40/42, Hong Kong to FCO 356, 18 March 1967.

46.
FCO40/42, Hong Kong to FCO 367, 20 March 1967.

47.
FCO40/42, Colonial Office paper ��Background Note��, undated, late 1968.

48.
Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong Annual Report 1952, 11�V4.

49.
Zhong, ��Xianggang de Daxuesheng kaici tan zhengzhi��, 11.

50.
Hong Kong Government, District Administration in Hong Kong, 4.

51.
King, ��Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong, 422�V39.

52.
Lau, ��Colonial Rule, Transfer of Sovereignty and the Problem of Political Leaders in Hong Kong��, 225.

53.
Tsang, A Documentary History of Hong Kong, 53�V6.

54.
Hayes, Friends and Teachers, 281.

55.
Xianggang Guangchashe, Guangcha Xianggang, 41�V8.

56.
Ming Bao, editorials of 31 August 1982 and 9 September 1983.


Chapter 15: Fateful Decisions
1.
FCO40/55, ��Secretary of State��s meeting with Sir David Trench��, 2 May 1968.

2.
CO1030/1300, Black to Poynton, top secret and personal letter, 30 October 1962.

3.
The four were Mao��s wife, Qiang Qing, and Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen and Yao Wenyuan.

4.
Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia 1979 Yearbook, 179.

5.
The rest of this chapter is a revised version of Tsang, Appointment with China, 83�V110.

6.
Cottrell, The End of Hong Kong, 49.

7.
McLaren, Britain��s Record in Hong Kong, 13�V4.

8.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 165.

9.
Cradock claims in his memoirs that he doubted the Chinese would put nationalist considerations behind economic reform, though he did not explain why he nonetheless backed MacLehose��s proposal. Cradock, Experiences of China, 166.


. See Chapter 11.
11.
Grantham, Via Ports, 107.

12.
Hong Kong Government, Draft Agreement on the Future of Hong Kong, 2.

13.
Freris, The Financial Markets of Hong Kong, 48.

14.
King, History of the Hong Kong Bank, vol.4, 875.

15.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 165.

16.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 82�V3.

17.
Ruan, Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire, 56�V9.

18.
Han (ed.), Diplomacy of Contemporary China, 464.

19.
Cottrell, The End of Hong Kong, 54�V6; Roberti, The Fall of Hong Kong, 23. . McLaren, Britain��s Record in Hong Kong, 14.


21.
These include scholarly accounts like Tang and Ching, ��The MacLehose-Youde Years: Balancing the ��Three-Legged Stool�� 1971�V86��; Scott, Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy, 167; and Yahuda, Hong Kong: China��s Challenge, 64.

22.
Daily Information Bulletin, Supplement, 6 April 1979.

23.
See, for example, South China Morning Post, 7 April 1979.

24.
The timing was confirmed by Foreign Minister Wu Xuejian in 1984. Xianggang Wenti Wenjian Xuanji, 17�V8.

25.
Li, Huigui de Licheng, 70.

26.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Lun Tongyi Zhanxian, 150.

27.
Lee, The Reunification of China, 61.

28.
Swaine, ��Chinese Decision-Making Regarding Taiwan, 1979�V2000��, 312.

29.
Wu, Bridging the Strait, 74. . Guo (ed.), Zhonggong du Tai Zhengze Zhiliao Xuanji: 1949�V1991, vol.1, 413.


31.
Zhongguo Xinwen She (ed.), Liaogong zai Renjian, 184�V5.

32.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 16.

33.
Sima, Ronyao Quangui Deng Xiaoping de Xianggang Qiantu Tanpan, 2.

34.
This section on the resistance within the Chinese leadership is based on Qian, ��One Country, Two Systems�� �V The Structure and Process of China��s Policy Making towards Hong Kong (1979�V1990).

35.
Xianggang Wenti Wenjian Xuanji, 2�V3.

36.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 170.

37.
Li, Huigui de Licheng, 77.

38.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 172.

39.
Li, Bainian Quyushi de zhongjie, 144�V5. . Rafferty, City on the Rocks, 438�V40.


41.
For an analysis of the united front, see Van Slyke, Enemies and Friends.

42.
Analysis of the drafting of the 12 points is based on Qian, ��One Country, Two Systems��.

43.
Evans, Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China, 267.

44.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 259.

45.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 175.

46.
Young, One of Us, 292.

47.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 177�V8.

48.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 259.

49.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Wenxuan, vol.3, 12.


. Ibid. 14. 51. Ibid. 60.
52.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 260�V2.

53.
Han, Diplomacy of Contemporary China, 464�V5.

54.
Li, Bainian Quyushi de Zhongjie, 86.

55.
Cottrell, The End of Hong Kong, 86.

56.
Chung, Hong Kong��s Journey to Reunification, 45�V6.

57.
Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong 1983, 46.

58.
Hong Kong Government, Draft Agreement on Hong Kong��s Future, 3.

59.
Chiu, The People��s Republic of China and the Law of Treaties, 30.

60.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 184�V5.

61.
The revised 12 points are reproduced in Li, Huigui de Licheng, 104�V5.

62.
Beijing Review, no.52 (Beijing, 27 December 1982), 16.

63.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 185.

64.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 489.

65.
Xin Wan Bao, 13 May 1982.

66.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 86�V7. 67. Pai Shing, 16 July 1982, 4. 68. Ibid. 7�V8.


69.
See Chung, Hong Kong��s Journey, 60�V92.

70.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 491.

71.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 89�V92.

72.
The two are Sir Quo-wei Lee and Lydia Dunn.

73.
Philip Mao argues Beijing��s policy towards Hong Kong was essentially an application of the United Front approach. Mao, The People��s Republic of China in the Preparation for the Take-over of Hong Kong.

74.
Wilson, Hong Kong! Hong Kong!, 207. 75. Pai Shing, 1 July 1984, 3.


76.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Wenxuan, vol.3, 60.

77.
Roberti, The Fall of Hong Kong, 79.

78.
Cheng, Zhonggong Yuhe Tanpan, 204.

79.
Kreisberg, ��China��s Negotiating Behaviour��, 454.

80.
Howe, Conflict of Loyalty, 366.

81.
Financial Times, 16 September 1983.

82.
Ibid.

83.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 489�V90.

84.
Wen Hui Pao, 21 September 1983.

85.
Ming Bao, 2 October 1983.

86.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 490.

87.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 192. 88. Ibid. 197.


89.
Ibid.

90.
Evans, Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China, 268.

91.
Howe, Conflict of Loyalty, 374�V5.

92.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Wenxuan, vol.3, 67�V8.

93.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, 111�V12. 94. Pai Shing, 16 August 1984, 14.


95.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 198.

96.
Chung, Hong Kong��s Journey, 109.

97.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 112�V14.

98.
Ming Bao, 26 May 1984.

99.
Hong Kong Government, Draft Sino-British Agreement on Hong Kong, 13. 100. Ibid. 11�V13.


101. Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong: Arrangements for Testing the Acceptability of the Draft Agreement on the Future of the Territory, 18�V25.
Chapter 16: The Beginning of the End
1. Draft Agreement on Hong Kong��s Future, 15. 2. Ibid. 13.
3.
Tsang, ��Maximum Flexibility, Rigid Framework��, 421.

4.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 172�V3.

5.
Cheng (ed.), Hong Kong: In Search of a Future, 12�V13.

6.
Tsang, ��Realignment of Power: The Politics of Transition and Reform in Hong Kong��, 33�V6.

7.
Parliamentary Debates: Lords, vol.458, no.17, 10�V16 (Baroness Young��s statement, 10 December 1984).

8.
Parliamentary Debates: Commons, vol.69, no.22, 5 December 1984, 389�V449.

9.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 493.

10.
Draft Agreement on Hong Kong��s Future, 7.

11.
Lau and Kuan, The Ethos of the Hong Kong Chinese, 82�V5.

12.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu I, 177�V80.

13.
Tsang, ��Realignment of Power��, 46�V9.

14.
See Qishi Niandai, no.152, September 1982, special issue on the 1997 question.

15.
Lau, ��Colonial Rule, Transfer of Sovereignty and the Problem of Political Leaders��, 225.

16.
Li, Huigui de Licheng, 189.

17.
Zhonggong Zhongyang Wenxian Yanjiushe (ed.), Yiguo Liangjin Chongyao


Wenxian Xuanbian, 101�V2. 18. Ibid. 191.
19.
Lo, The Politics of Democratization in Hong Kong, 86�V7. Prime Minister Thatcher had thought of initiating democratisation as a means to pressure the Chinese during the negotiations, but this met with no support. Thatcher, Downing Street Years, 488.

20.
Walden, Excellence, Your Gap is Growing, 73. The number of British subjects


was over 2 million in 1984 but well over 3 million by 1997. 21. Qishi Niandai, no.142, January 1981, 67�V9.
22.
The rest of this section and the following one are substantially reproduced from Tsang, Appointment with China, 122�V131.

23.
Hong Kong Government, Green Paper: The Further Development of


Representative Government in Hong Kong, 4. 24. Ibid. 3.
25.
Hong Kong Government, White Paper: The Further Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong, 14�V55.

26.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 173.

27.
Li, Bainian Quyushi de Zhongjie, 211�V12. 28. Ibid. 172.


29.
Cheng Bao, 22 November 1985.

30.
Anon (ed.), Jibenfa, 117 (Record of Xu Jiatun��s press interview on 21 November 1985).

31.
Chang, ��How China Sees It��, 138.

32.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 177.

33.
This section is reproduced substantially from Tsang, Appointment With China, 125�V31.

34.
Youde, The Chairman��s Lecture: The Political and Commercial Prospects for Hong Kong, 5.

35.
Li, Huigui de Licheng, 190.

36.
See So, Hong Kong��s Embattled Democracy, 126�V7.

37.
Roberti, The Fall of Hong Kong, 161�V4

38.
Hong Kong Government, Green Paper: The 1987 Review of Developments in Representative Government.

39.
The Independent, 11 February 1988.

40.
Hong Kong Government, Public Response to Green Paper: The 1987 Report of


the Survey Office Part I, 52. 41. Ibid. 57.
42.
Hong Kong Government, White Paper of 1984, 8.

43.
Hong Kong Government, White Paper of 1988, 8.

44.
The Independent, 11 February 1988.

45.
Even among the most vocal supporters of democratisation, the ��service professionals��, only a few hundred marched against the manipulation. So, Embattled Democracy, 134.

46.
Lau, ��Institutions Without Leaders��, 191.

47.
Tsang, A Documentary History of Hong Kong, 227.

48.
Tsang, Appointment With China, 138�V44.

49.
Ye, ��Xianggang Xinhuashe fazhan shi��, 189.

50.
Tsang, ��Maximum Flexibility, Rigid Framework��, 413�V31.

51.
The rest of this section is reproduced substantially from Tsang, Appointment with China, 134�V8.

52.
Vogel, One Step Ahead in China, 67.

53.
Cheng, Deng Xiaoping ��Yiguo Liangzhi�� Sixiang Yanjiu, 87�V8.

54.
Quoted in Zhao, Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy, 238.

55.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Lun Xianggang Wenti, 6.

56.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Lun Tongyi Zhanxian, 278�V9.

57.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Lun Xianggang Wenti, 14.

58.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Wenxuan, vol.3, 221.

59.
Ibid. 60. Ibid. 154�V5. 61. Ibid. 156.


62.
Harding, Organizing China, 1

63.
Zhou, Zijing Kaichu Xing Zhaoxia, 105.

64.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.2, 432�V3.

65.
Miners, The Government and Politics of Hong Kong, 68�V9.

66.
Wu, Renda Huiyilu, 97, 152.

67.
This section is reproduced substantially from Tsang, Appointment with China, 144�V55.

68.
Hong Kong Government, Draft Agreement on Hong Kong��s Future, 13.

69.
Basic Law Drafting Committee, The Basic Law, 5.

70.
Xianggang Wenhuibao (ed.), Jibenfa de Dansheng, 205.

71.
By the time the committee had completed its task in 1990, the number of its Hong Kong drafters had fallen to 18, since one had died, two had resigned and two had been expelled. Three mainland Chinese drafters had also died in the meantime.

72.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 156�V8.

73.
Xianggang Wenhuibao (ed.), Jibenfa de Dansheng, 22�V3.

74.
Whether they were card-carrying members of the Communist Party or not, they were subject to the party��s control. In 1989, the Ta Kung Pao��s status as a party organ was officially reaffirmed by senior leaders like Jiang Zemen and Li Peng. Jin, Zhonggong Xianggang Zhengce, 9.

75.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 161. 76. Ibid. 157.


77. Ibid. 160�V1.
78. Anon. (ed.), Jibenfa: Xianggang Weilai de Gouhua, 91. 79. Ibid. 111.
80.
Pai Shing, 16 December 1985, 6�V8, 58.

81.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.1, 164.

82.
Chan, ��Democracy Derailed: Realpolitik in the Making of the Hong Kong Basic Law, 1985�V90��, 8.

83.
Schram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung, 316�V17.

84.
Li, Bainian Quyushi de Zhongjie, 169.

85.
Based on Qian, ��One Country, Two Systems��.

86.
For commander-commissar relations, see Cheng, Party-Military Relations in the PRC and Taiwan.

87.
Li, Huigui de Licheng, 146�V71.

88.
Xianggang Wenhuibao, Jibenfa de Dansheng, 231.

89.
Li, Bainian Quyushi de Zhongjie, 184�V5.

90.
Pai Shing, 1 December 1988, 3�V5; Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.2, 211�V12. As it turned out Cha was wrong in his assessment of the PRC��s bottom line.

91.
Lo, The Politics of Democratization in Hong Kong, 121. 92. Pai Shing, 16 December 1988, 9�V16.


93.
So, Hong Kong��s Embattled Democracy, 141�V2, 161�V2.

94.
Lo, The Politics of Democratization in Hong Kong, 214�V15. 95. Beijing Review, 27 December 1982, 16. 96. Beijing Review, 27 December 1982, 10.


97.
Ibid.

98.
Nathan, ��Political Rights in Chinese Constitutions��, 121.

99.
Xiao (ed.), Yiguo Liangzhi yu Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu Jibenfa, 8�V13.


Chapter 17: The Final Chapter
1.
Michael, ��China and the Crisis of Communism��, 449.

2.
Tsou, The Cultural Revolution and Post Mao Reforms, 250.

3.
Han (ed.), Cries for Democracy, 5

4.
Dittmer, China Under Reform, 98�V9, 146.

5.
Nathan, ��The Documents and Their Significance��, xxxv�Vxxxvii.

6.
Manion, ��Introduction: Reluctant Duelists: The Logic of the 1989 Protests and Massacre��, xxvi�Vxxvii.

7.
Zhang (ed.), Zhongguo ��Lusi�� Zhenxiang, vol.1, 195�V8.

8.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Wenxuan, vol.3, 303.

9.
Chen, ��Report on Checking the Turmoil and Quelling the Counter-Revolutionary Rebellion��, 1.

10.
Brook, Quelling the People, 40�V1.

11.
Cheng, ��Prospect for Democracy in Hong Kong��, 278.

12.
Wong, Red China Blues, 235�V6.

13.
Cheng, Behind the Tiananmen Massacre, 204. Hong Kong��s pro-democracy activists claimed a turnout of 1 million. The Hong Kong police��s estimate was half a million.

14.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.2, 368�V9.

15.
Best account in Brook, Quelling the People, 108�V69.

16.
Zhang, Zhongguo ��Lusi�� Zhenxiang, vol.2, 993�V8.

17.
Xin Bao, 5 June 1989.

18.
This section is based substantially on Tsang, Appointment with China, 164�V80.

19.
Dongfang Ribao, 5 June 1989; Xin Bao, 6 June 1989.

20.
Pai Shing, 1 July 1989, 51; Lee, ��Community and Identity in Transition in Hong Kong��, 312.

21.
South China Morning Post, 12 June 1989.

22.
Foreign Affairs Committee, Second Report on Hong Kong (Session 1988�V9), vii.

23.
Miners, The Government and Politics of Hong Kong, 39.

24.
Ibid.

25.
Shawcross, Kowtow!, 37�V8.

26.
Pai Shing, 16 June 1989, 12�V13. The remaining members of Hong Kong��s population were not born there and therefore are not British subjects, except for those who have become naturalised.

27.
Far Eastern Economic Review, 22 June 1989, 14.

28.
The Independent, 5 April 1990.

29.
The Guardian, 5 April 1990.

30.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 495.

31.
Far Eastern Economic Review, 8 June 1989, 18.

32.
Ibid.

33.
Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 495.

34.
Ibid.

35.
Tsang, A Documentary History of Hong Kong, 97 (British Foreign Secretary Hurd to Chinese Foreign Minister Qian, message of 12 February 1990).

36.
Hong Kong Government, The Draft Agreement on Hong Kong��s Future, 23.

37.
Hong Kong Government, An Introduction to Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance, 3.

38.
��China Sticks to HK, Macao Policy��, Beijing Review, 3�V9 July 1989, 6. 39. Ibid. 6.


40. Cradock, Experiences of China, 229. 41. Ibid. 230.
42. Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.2, 385. 43. Ibid. 384�V5.
44.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 232.

45.
For the PRC��s official position on the sacking of Xu, see Li, Huigui de Licheng, 211�V2.

46.
Xin Bao, 13 May 1990.

47.
Xu, Xu Jiatun Xianggang Huiyilu, vol.2, 395�V6.

48.
Renmin Ribao, 21 July 1989.

49.
For details, see Chan and Clark (eds), The Hong Kong Basic Law, 21�V9.

50.
Li, Quyushi de Zhongjie, 244�V7.

51.
Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong 1990, 5.

52.
Leung, ��Summary Findings and Implications��, 145.

53.
Leung, ��The ��China Factor�� in the 1991 Legislative Council Election��, 187�V 8.

54.
Scott, ��An Overview of the Hong Kong Legislative Council Elections of 1991��, 5.

55.
Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong 1991, 21.

56.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 237.

57.
Deng, Deng Xiaoping Wenxuan, vol.3, 68.

58.
Liao, Xianggang Minzhuhua de Kunjing, 91. 59. Ibid. 104.


60.
Ian Scott, ��Political Transformation in Hong Kong��, 216.

61.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 239.

62.
South China Morning Post, 9 February 1990.

63.
The Independent, 5 July 1991.

64.
Cradock, Experiences of China, 241.

65.
Scott, ��Political Transformation in Hong Kong��, 218.

66.
The Independent, 3 January 1992.

67.
Major, Autobiography, 505�V6.

68.
In his 790-page autobiography, Hong Kong, as such, takes up only four pages.

69.
Major, Autobiography, 505. Major was in fact not the first leader of a major country to visit China after 1989.

70.
Heald, Beating Retreat, 4�V5.

71.
Major, Autobiography, 309.

72.
The rest of this section is reproduced substantially from Tsang, Appointment with China, 183�V95.

73.
Personal meeting with Patten in June 1992.

74.
Ching, ��A Discredited Past? One Hong Kong View on Lord Wilson��, 5.

75.
Ching, ��Toward Colonial Sunset: The Wilson Regime, 1987�V92��, 192.

76.
Major, Autobiography, 506.

77.
Dimbleby, The Last Governor, 11.

78.
Patten, East and West, 15.

79.
Lau, ����Dear Governor��: An Elected Lady Offers Some Advice��, 7.

80.
Liao, Xianggang Minzhuhua de Kunjing, 204.

81.
Patten, Our Next Five Years, 32�V3. Patten avoids mentioning that such an


overlap is inherent in the British parliamentary system. 82. Ibid. 34�V5. 83. Ibid. 35�V6. 84. Ibid. 37. 85. Ibid. 38.
86.
Basic Law Drafting Committee, The Basic Law, 66.

87.
Ibid.

88.
Patten, Our Next Five Years, 41.

89.
Hurd, ��Governor Patten Unveils a Bold Blueprint for Hong Kong��s Future��, 2.

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