![]() ![]() How did it come to this? We learn from private papers that Margaret Thatcher anguished over the fate of Hong Kong, sought secret American briefings on how to handle China and put her trust in an adviser who was torn between duty and pride. It ends with the battle for democracy on the city’s streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party. ![]() The story sweeps the listener from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the 19th century to the age of globalisation and the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West. A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. ![]()
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