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Hong Kong’s Bureaucrats Rewrite History

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Philip Bowring
Apr 10, 2014
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The rewriting of Hong Kong’s history has started early. Its government, for a mix of bureaucratic interests and political assumptions, is simply obliterating significant chunks of it from the public record.

The long term result will be that for future historians of China its existence will be much diminished rating along with Weihai (under British rule f…

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