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Today Hong Kong, tomorrow the world : what China's crackdown reveals about its plans to end freedom everywhere / Mark L. Clifford
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New York : St. Martin's Press , [2022]
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Preface
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One: The summer of democracy
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Two: An umbrella occupation: a new generation rebels
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Three: And then there were none
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Four: Property and poverty
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Five: Opium, free trade, and a "barren rock"
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Six: A "dying city" rises from the ruins
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Seven: "Horses will still run, stocks will still sizzle, dancers will still dance"
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Eight: Massacre in Tiananmen: "Today's China is tomorrow's Hong Kong"
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Nine: "I have to live in the real world"
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Ten: The last governor: "A thousand-year sinner"
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Eleven: China opens for business
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Twelve: "The great Chinese takeaway"
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Thirteen: "The first postmodern city to die"
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Fourteen: The endgame
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Fifteen: Punishing a media maverick
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Sixteen: "Strike hard"
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Seventeen: "History will absolve me"
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Epilogue: A newspaper is murdered, a city mourns
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Index
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Summary: "A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty established a Special Administrative Region (SAR) with a far freer political system than that of Communist China-one with its own currency and government administration, a common-law legal system, and freedoms of press, speech, and religion. But as the halfway mark of the SAR's lifespan approaches in 2022, it is clear that China has not kept its word. Universal suffrage and free elections have not been instituted, harassment and brutality have become normalized, and activists are being jailed en masse. To make matters worse, a national security law that
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学情ID
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BC12056703
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本文言語コード
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英語
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著者標目リンク
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*Clifford, Mark, 1957- <> author
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分類標目
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LCC:DS796.H757
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分類標目
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DC23:951.25
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件名標目等
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Hong Kong (China) -- History
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Hong Kong (China) -- Relations -- China
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China -- Relations -- China -- Hong Kong
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Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government
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Civil rights -- China -- Hong Kong -- History
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