Last Exit
Murray Sayle, 27 November 1997
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong
by Jonathan Dimbleby.
Little, Brown, 461 pp., £22.50, July 1997,0 316 64018 2 Show More
by Jonathan Dimbleby.
Little, Brown, 461 pp., £22.50, July 1997,
In Pursuit of British Interests: Reflections on Foreign Policy under Margaret Thatcher and John Major
by Percy Cradock.
Murray, 228 pp., £18.99, September 1997,0 7195 5464 0 Show More
by Percy Cradock.
Murray, 228 pp., £18.99, September 1997,
Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule: The Economic and Political Implications of Reversion
edited by Warren Cohen and Li Zhao.
Cambridge, 255 pp., £45, August 1997,0 521 62158 5 Show More
edited by Warren Cohen and Li Zhao.
Cambridge, 255 pp., £45, August 1997,
The Hong Kong Advantage
by Michael Enright, Edith Scott and David Dodwell.
Oxford, 369 pp., £20, July 1997,0 19 590322 6 Show More
by Michael Enright, Edith Scott and David Dodwell.
Oxford, 369 pp., £20, July 1997,
“... to do.’ Dimbleby adds, by way of rumour, that Major and Hurd regarded the outgoing governor, Sir David Wilson (who was sacked to make way for Patten), ‘as one of the principal advocates of the “appeasement” of China, an approach which they believed could no longer be sustained after the atrocity of Tiananmen Square in June 1989’. But, while he avoids ... ”
