ASIN: B00FRD9K1U
Publisher: Top Floor Books
Pages: 118
The 1997 Hong Kong handover was no laughing matter...or maybe it was!Read the cartoons that chronicled the End of Empire: Hong Kong's last 100 days under British colonial rule.In March 1997 controversial, award-winning cartoonist Larry Feign was commissioned by a British newspaper to chronicle an unprecedented moment in history—The Reunification of China! The End of the British Empire!—and all the rumors, worst-case scenarios and unforgettable events:Pre-handover supermarket specialsLast-minute pregnancies before the one-child policy kicked inThe greatest onslaught of tacky souvenirs in historyThe invasion of the foreign journalistsBritain finally lifts a finger for Hong KongThis book contains the entire series, plus cartoons from Time Magazine and elsewhere, and a Politically Incorrect History of Hong Kong. You'll laugh almost as loud as Chinese leaders laugh at Hong Kong people's ...
