Week 11: Awaiting China

I. The Growth Years

1. GDP (1960s: 10% growth per annum; 1970s–1980s: 500%)
2. Social welfare (1970–71: HKD 40 million; 1986–87: 2.5 billion)
3. Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1914; 1986) . . . The Greed of Man (1992)
4. Li Ka-shing 李嘉誠 (b. 1928; Hutchison-Whampoa, 1980; Hongkong Electric Holdings, 1985)

II. Post-Mao China

1. UN membership (Nov 1971)
2. Gang of Four
3. Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平 (1904–97)
4. Open-door Policy (1978; Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, 1980)

III. The Sino-British Joint Declaration (1984)

1. Removal from list of colonies (1972) — “Crown Colony” to “Dependent Territory”
2. The MacLehose visit (1979)
3. British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act (1981)
4. The Margaret Thatcher visit (1982)
5. The Basic Law (1990) . . . Drafting Committee (59/23) . . . Consultative Committee

V. The Pro-Democracy Movement of 1989

VI. “Through-Train” Derailed

1. Political Reforms . . . District Administration Scheme (1982) . . . Legislative Council (1988, 1991 [16/18])
2. The Chris Patten Years (1992–1997) . . . Electoral Reform of 1994 (20 directly-elected seats from geographical constituencies, 30 functional constituencies, and 10 seats by an election committee) . . . Provisional Legislative Council (1996)

VII. The Transition Period

1. GDP (mid-1990s: service sector ~85%; manufacturing <10%)
2. About 10% or 600,000 emigrants (50%+ to Canada) between 1984 and 1996 . . . 44,169 (1995 peak)