1. Hong Kong — Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- Author:
- Dick Virden
- Publication Date:
- 11-2019
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- American Diplomacy
- Institution:
- American Diplomacy
- Abstract:
- Watching the unfolding drama in the streets of Hong Kong, as police and protestors clash daily over the city-state’s future, brings back vivid memories of another, distant era when, for visitors like me, the then-Crown Colony was a tantalizing, intoxicating, mixture of East and West. It was more than half a century ago, in January of 1967, when I first stopped in Hong Kong en route to Bangkok for my initial assignment in the Foreign Service. I’d never ventured outside the United States before and was bowled over by the sights, sounds, and smells of this teeming island group off the tip of mainland China.
- Topic:
- Diplomacy, History, Democracy, Protests, and Memoir
- Political Geography:
- China, Asia, North America, Hong Kong, and United States of America