Chinese communists and Hong Kong capitalists
Subtitle: 1937-1997
By: Cindy Yik-yi Chu
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780230107991
Description: This book studies the activities of the Chinese Communists in Hong Kong from 1937 to 1997. The Chinese Communists were involved with the Hong Kong capitalists. Communication and cooperation between them and mutual interests constituted the manifestation of a united front effort. The Chinese Communists were more accommodating of Hong Kong and open to working with the local capitalists than some observers might think. This book reveals a unique part of Chinese Communist history, and six decades of astonishing united front between the Chinese Communists and Hong Kong upper-class capitalists. It should attract the attention of anyone interested in contemporary China.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The united front policy of the Chinese communists in Hong Kong during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; title: Overt and covert functions of the Hong Kong Branch of the Xinhua News Agency, 1947-1984; title: The origins of the Chinese communist alliance with the Hong Kong business elite, the 1997 question, and the basic law committees, 1979-1985; title: The involvement of the business elite in the drafting of Hong Kong's basic law and the problems of the united front policy, 1985-1990; title: The Chinese communists' united front with big business and their collaboration on the handover, 1990-1997; title: The selection of the chief executive, May-December 1996; title: Tung Chee-hwa and the last days of colonial Hong Kong, December 1996-June 1997.