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During the negotiations between China and Britain over the venue of the handover ceremony, the British proposed to hold it at Central in an open playground so as to make all presence at the ceremony to witness the leaving of the last British warship, and to demonstrate Britain’s “Exit with Glory.”
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Cheung Ka-wei (2009) Hong Kong Watershed: The 1967 Riots, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p. 18.
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Ibid, p. 30.
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Ibid, p. 59.
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Susan L. Carruthers, Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency (1944–1960), London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1995.
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Liang Jiaquan et al., The Mystery of the 1967 Riots, Hong Kong: Economic Times Press, 2001.
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Ian Scott, Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 104.
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Cheung, Ka-wei (2000) “Preface” to The Inside Story of Hong Kong 1967 Riots (in Chinese).
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Jiang, S. (2017). Silent Bitterness. In: China’s Hong Kong. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4187-7_2
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