City On the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Viking, London, 1989
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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- Title
- City On the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future
- Author
- Kevin Rafferty
- Publisher
- Viking, London
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670802050
- ISBN 13
- 9780670802050
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Reviews
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This substantial volume reveals Hong Kong mainly from current financial and political perspectives. Rafferty, who has been an Asia-Pacific correspondent for The Financial Times and Insitutional Investor , tells an occasionally repetitious story of the colony's people and neighborhoods, its banks and shops and money-making hustle. The shadow of China looms in later chapters as Rafferty discusses the 1984 Joint Declaration wherein Britain yields Hong Kong to China in 1997 (a well-balanced assessment) as well as the aftermath of the Tiananmen Massacre. This complements Jan Morris's Hong Kong ( LJ 2/1/89): where Morris's prose is more lucid, Rafferty's is more statistical; where Morris is more historical, Rafferty is more present- and future-oriented. Enhanced with a good bibliography, this is especially recommended for business-minded readers.
-Elizabeth A. Teo, Moraine Valley Community Coll. Lib., Palos Hills, Ill.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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