Remembering the handover
By Andrew Moody | China Daily | Updated: 2017-01-13 07:09
The autobiography of Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former UK foreign secretary, recounts the negotiations up to the return of Hong Kong to China on June 30, 1997. Andrew Moody reports.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, UK foreign secretary in the run up to the Hong Kong handover 20 years ago this year, says he was going to choose a title for his autobiography that might have chimed with Chinese notions of longevity and respect for the elderly.
"My first draft title for the book, which my publishers were amused by but not particularly impressed with, wasMy Early Life: The First Seventy Years, which a Chinese audience would have appreciated," he says.
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