Hong Kong's Watershed: The 1967 Riots

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Hong Kong University Press, 2009年10月1日 - 272 頁
Hong Kong's Watershed: The 1967 Riots is the first English book that provides an account and critical analysis of the disturbances based on declassified files from the British government and recollection by key players during the events. The interviews with the participants, including Jack Cater, Liang Shangyuan, George Walden, Tsang Tak-sing, Tsang Yok-sing, and Hong Kong government officials, left irreplaceable records of oral history on the political upheaval.

The book analyses the causes and repercussions of the 1967 riots which are widely seen as a watershed of postwar history of Hong Kong. It depicts the prelude to the 1967 riots, including the Star Ferry riots in 1966, the leftist-instigated riots in Macau in 1966, and the major events leading to the disturbances, including the labour dispute at a plastic flower factory, the border conflict in Sha Tau Kok, bomb attacks and arson attacks on the office of British charge d’affaires in Beijing.

 

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A Watershed in the Postwar History of Hong Kong
1
1 Prelude to the 1967 riots
9
The immediate trigger of the 1967 riots
23
3 The Garden Road incident on May 22 1967
43
4 Peoples Daily editorial on June 3 and the general strikes
57
5 The Sha Tau Kok incident and bomb attacks
71
6 Britains plan for emergency evacuation of Hong Kong
95
7 Hawks and doves within the British government in handling the disturbances
101
9 Finale to the Hong Kongstyle Cultural Revolution
121
10 Impact of the 1967 riots
131
11 Recollection and reflections by key players in the disturbances
143
Appendices
221
Notes
227
Bibliography
237
Index
239
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8 The arson attack on the office of British charge daffaires and the murder of Lam Bun
109

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Gary Ka-wai Cheung has been a journalist since 1991. He worked as a reporter at Sing Tao Daily, Overseas Chinese Daily, Yazhou Zhoukan and South China Morning Post, covering fields ranging from politics, education and integration between Hong Kong and the mainland. He is currently an associate news editor at the South China Morning Post. His interests in the 1967 riots began in 1996 and he published Inside Story of the 1967 Riots in 2000 (in Chinese). He won the Human Rights Press Award (Magazine Division) presented by the Hong Kong Journalists Association and the Amnesty International in 1998.

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