LIST OF CONTENTS:

Introduction

Part One : Hong Kong
1.0 Hong Kong's Origins
1.1 Hong Kong
1.2 The Skyline
1.3 Feng Shui
1.4 Festivals
1.5 What's in a name?
1.6 Pirates
1.7 Executions
1.8 Triads
1.9 Suzie Wong
1.10 ICAC
1.11 ABC/BBC/CBC
1.12 II's
1.13 Passports
1.14 Localisation
1.15 Fishing Communities
1.16 Hong Kong (In)digestion
1.17 Fashion
1.18 Suits & Posers
1.19 Pollution
1.20 Salespersons
1.21 HK Sevens
1.22 HK Success
1.23 Some thoughts on the future

Part Two : The Handover
2.0 The Handover
2.1 Patten's Final Policy Address
2.2 Extract of the speech by Jiang Zemin on 1 July 1997
2.3 Policy Agenda of CH Tung, the first Chief Executive

Part Three : The New HKSAR
3.0 CH Tung
3.1 The Provisional Legislative Council
3.2 Human Rights
3.3 The Press & Free Speech
3.4 Immigration

Part Four : The New Business
4.0 Reclamation & Development
4.1 Superbridge of the future
4.2 Population & Housing
4.3 The Environment
4.4 Business & Corruption
4.5 One Country, Two Currencies
4.6 Finances
4.7 The Budget
4.8 Land Fund
4.9 Investment by China
4.10 Tung's US visit
4.11 Tung's first Policy address
4.12 Bird Flu
4.13 The Asian Financial Crisis
4.14 Peregrine Shocker
4.15 Goods & Services

Part Five: Conclusions
5.0 Autonomy or Colony?

Appendices and Acknowledgements
Appendix I - Chronology of Key Points of the Legislature
Appendix II - Newspaper Headlines after June '97
Appendix III - Newspaper Headlines before June '97
Acknowledgements


Introduction |||| Part One |||| Part Two |||| Part Three |||| Part Four |||| Part Five |||| Appendices