Viewpoint
10.15.13

Trust Issues: Hong Kong Resists Beijing’s Advances

Sebastian Veg

When Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, expectations were high—in Beijing and among the pro-mainland forces in Hong Kong—that identification with the Chinese nation would slowly but surely strengthen among the local population,...

The NYRB China Archive
06.12.97

Holding Out in Hong Kong

Ian Buruma
from New York Review of Books
Flicking through the April issue of the Hong Kong Tatler, a glossy high life magazine modeled after the London Tatler, I was reminded of a story I once heard about the Rothschild house in Paris. When Victor Rothschild visited the Avenue de Marigny...