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=00 aO =1^ The Years of Final Hong Kong British The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal w John Flowerdew i HONG KONG THE FINAL YEARS OF BRITISH Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from IVIulticultural Canada; University of Toronto Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/finalyearsofbritOOflow Canada-n : rr Kong Rcr ;r^ -ce Centre 1 SpadinaCrescent.Rm. Ill •Toronto,Canada•M5S lAl The Final Years of Hong Kong British The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal John Flowerdew AssociateProfessor EnglishDepartment City UniversityofHongKong ^ PublishedinGreatBritainby MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstokce. HampshireRG21 6XSandLondon Companiesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld Firstedition 1998 Reprinted 1998 Acataloguerecordforthisbook isavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN0-333-683 2-9hardcover 1 ISBN0-333-683 3-7paperback 1 ^ PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaby ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., ScholarlyandReferenceDivision. 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y. 10010 ISBN0-312-17775-5clothbound LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Flowerdew,John, 1951- ThefinalyearsofBritishHongKong : thediscourseofcolonial withdrawal/JohnFlowerdew. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-312-17775-5 — — 1. HongKong—History TransferofsovereigntytoChina. 1997. 2. HongKong Politicsandgovernment. I.Title. DS796.H757F58 1997 951.2505—dc21 97-27124 CIP ©JohnFlowerdew 1998 All rightsreserved. Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthispublicationmaybemade withoutwrittenpermission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms ofany licence permitting limited copying issued by W theCopyrightLicensingAgency,90TottenhamCourtRoad,London P9HE. 1 Any person whodoes any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. The authorhas asserted his right to be identified as the authorofthis work in accordance withtheCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustain9edf8orest7sour6ces.54 10 3 2 1 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 PrintedinHongKong To Lynne, Rupert and Humphrey Contents Acknowledgements ix Table ofAcronyms x Introduction xi PARTI 1. The Imperialist Background 3 2. From Early Development to the Beginnings ofRetrocession 16 3. The Negotiations and the Joint Declaration 32 4. Representative Government and the Basic Law 53 5. Tiananmen and After 66 PARTH 6. Enter Christopher Patten 85 7. Patten's Political Reform Programme 106 8. The Through Train Derailed 129 A Lame Duck Government? 150 9. 10. The Die is Cast 171 11. Ideology and Values 191 12. Conclusion 214 Index 249