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There is very little question how people in Beijing will feel about the resumption of Chinese administration of Hong Kong, and this includes the man-in-the-street as well as those who hold the reins of power in Zhongnanhai. Opinion is quite understandably less unanimous in Hong Kong, and this book offers quite a fair sampling of a whole spectrum of views. Hong Kong Remembers is not actually about 1997. Its avowed aim is to chart the post-war history of Hong Kong through a series of 30 personal accounts by a cross-section of people ranging from British colonial administrators to business tycoons, society grandes dames, political activists and civil servants. Lady May Ride complains about how crowded Hong Kong has become, frets about having to live in a high-rise building, albeit in a posh area, and talks about \"missing all the lovely old homes and gardens in England\". She speaks in disapproving tones about demands made in the early '90s by students of Hong Kong University for a voice in the selection of the Vice Chancellor and notes that her husband, a former Vice Chancellor of the university, \"would not have stood for\" them. \"Sadly, times have changed.\" \"Hong Kong is no longer my Hong Kong and I am not alone in feeling that,\" she concludes.
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