This sets the scene for the Sino-British negotiations over Hong Kong’s future that began in 1982.
Sheridan is well qualified for the task, having covered China as Far East correspondent for the Sunday Times for two decades, including during the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule in 1997.Įarly chapters take us from the ‘merchants and mandarins’ who shaped the 19th-century colony to China’s opening up under Mao’s successor Deng Xiaoping from 1978 onwards. Michael Sheridan’s highly readable The Gate to China offers a substantial history of Hong Kong from its early days as a colony to the aftermath of the violent and widely reported unrest in 2019.
Events in Hong Kong over recent years have given rise to a flurry of books examining politics in the former British colony.
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