The End of Hong Kong: The Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat

By Robert Cottrell

At midnight on 30 June 1997, Britain will end its century and a half of colonial rule in Hong Kong, leaving China to resume sovereignty over the fabulously wealthy city-state and its six million people. The terms of the handover are to be those set down in the Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, initiated by Britain and China in September 1984 after two years of intense and secret negotiation. A treaty unparallelled in peacetime, the Joint Declaration provides for the retrocession of Britain's last major colony to Communist rule, in exchange only for China's promise of good behaviour towards the people it thus inherits.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719552915
• ISBN13: 9780719552915
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.