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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 575838
Title: Hong Kong Diaries
Author: Chris Patten
Narrator: Chris Patten
Format: Unabridged
Length: 25:41:17
Language: English
Release date: 06-21-22
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Asia, Global Politics
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. Unexpectedly, his opponents included not only the Chinese themselves, but some British businessmen and civil service mandarins upset by Patten's efforts, for whom political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong seemed less important than keeping on the right side of Beijing. The book concludes with an account of what has happened in Hong Kong since the handover, a powerful assessment of recent events and Patten's reflections on how to deal with China - then and now.
© Chris Patten 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 575838
Title: Hong Kong Diaries
Author: Chris Patten
Narrator: Chris Patten
Format: Unabridged
Length: 25:41:17
Language: English
Release date: 06-21-22
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Asia, Global Politics
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. Unexpectedly, his opponents included not only the Chinese themselves, but some British businessmen and civil service mandarins upset by Patten's efforts, for whom political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong seemed less important than keeping on the right side of Beijing. The book concludes with an account of what has happened in Hong Kong since the handover, a powerful assessment of recent events and Patten's reflections on how to deal with China - then and now.
© Chris Patten 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Contact: [email protected]