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Article: Lau Chi Kuen. Hong Kong's Colonial Legacy: A Hong Kong Chinese's View of the British Heritage.(Review)
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- China Review International
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- September 22, 2000
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Lau Chi Kuen. Hong Kong's Colonial Legacy: A Hong Kong Chinese's View of the British Heritage. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1997. xvi, 200 pp. Paperback $16.00, ISBN 962-201-793-2.
Hong Kong's Colonial Legacy: A Hong Kong Chinese's View of the British Heritage, by Lau Chi Kuen, joins a succession of new publications on Hong Kong's reunification with China in 1997, an event that drew worldwide media attention. In the past, the return of a colony to its motherland rarely generated global interest, but Hong Kong's reintegration with China was a historic event imbued with diverse and often contradictory meanings. In the West, the 1997 handover represented ...