The NYRB China Archive
04.07.94

The Battle for Hong Kong

Jonathan Mirsky
from New York Review of Books

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Hong Kong—The first weekend of the Year of the Dog, February 11–13, was not a good one for those of us who live in Hong Kong. The annual fireworks display, sponsored by the Bank of China (in Peking fireworks are banned), was...

The NYRB China Archive
09.24.92

Blazing Passions

Geoffrey O’Brien
from New York Review of Books

In a coincidence of programming in New York City a selection of the commercially most successful Hong Kong movies of the 1980s ran at the same time as a retrospective of work (some of it only marginally released in its country of origin) by the...

The NYRB China Archive
04.12.90

The Last Days of Hong Kong

Ian Buruma
from New York Review of Books
May 1983: It was exactly seven months after Mrs. Thatcher stumbled and fell on the steps of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing that I arrived in Hong Kong to take up a job. The prime ministerial fall; which preceded a fierce quarrel with Deng...

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