![]() ![]() ![]() Towards economic superpower status-to the present. In The Gate and the Wall, Michael Sheridan, who served for two decades as a foreign correspondent in Asia, provides a vivid modern history of Hong Kong from China's break with Maoism in 1977-its first step But since then its people have struggled for democracy against dictatorship. Its passage from a British colony to Chinese rule was a joint diplomaticĪccomplishment. ![]() A prosperous city with its freedoms enshrined by international treaties and conventions, Hong Kong is a unique part of the People's Republic of China. The recent protests and crackdown in Hong Kong shook the world. The story of Hong Kong and the rise of China in an era of globalisation, authoritarian power and democratic defiance. ![]()
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