Parris H. Chang he abrupt dsm ssal of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu
Yaobang in January 1987 and the subsequent dr ye against" bourgeois lberalization" have …

The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of
the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to …

Historians of the twentieth century tend to think of history-and more often than not write about
it in terms of important'turning-points'. They do so partly because it makes for a more …

Five days after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Deng Xiaoping indicated that this “counter-
revolutionary turmoil” was bound to happen because of trends in the da qihou (literally, the …

When the Long Marchers set out from Ruijin in October 1934, they left behind a smaller army
under Xiang Ying and Chen Yi to harass and tie down the enemy, coordinate with the field …

Since the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, Hong Kong has been a
strategic ground in its 'united front'work. With the formation of the People's Republic of China …

The Chinese empire was born amid the turmoil and wars of the second century BCE. In the
first two dynastic regimes, the Qin (221-206 BCE) and the Han (202 BCE-220 CE) several …

The history of colonial East Asia is a human anatomy describing beneficial organs of foreign
rule. Proclaiming itself a schematic diagram open to inspection, the anatomy of the late …

This chapter will not go into detail concerning the development of both Hong Kong and
Taiwan since their separation from Imperial China under the Ching Dynasty during the …