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Article: Gillian Bickley. Hong Kong Invaded! A '97 Nightmare.
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2002
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Gillian Bickley. Hong Kong Invaded! A `97 Nightmare.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001. xxi + 303 pp. $29.95.
HONG KONG INVADED!, Gillian Bickley's edition of the anonymous The Back Door: A Sketch of What Might Happen, is the first publication of this dystopian cautionary fiction since its original publication, both serially and in pamphlet form, in Hong Kong's China Mail in 1897.
The Back Door manuscript, as is common in what Bickley calls "future war fiction" (a genre she traces back to the 1871 British Battle of Dorking), purports to have been found in 1916 by the editor of the fictitious newspaper Star of Uruguay, thereby locating ...