Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong Book

Abbreviations ix

Preface xi

Introduction The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong - Time to "Come Out"? 1

1 Party Supremacy and Hong Kong 15

2 The Chinese Communist Party Tools of Co-optation and Persuasion 27

3 The Earliest History of the Chinese Communist Party in 43 Hong Kong: From 1920 to 1926 43

4 Purge, War and Civil War: From 1927 to 1948 55

5 Hong Kong to the Chinese Communist Party: From 1949 to 1965 79

6 The Cultural Revolution and the Riots of 1967: From 1966 to 1976 99

7 The Taking Back of Hong Kong: From 1977 to 1984 125

8 Shaping Post-Colonial Hong Kong: From 1985 to 1989 145

9 Passage to Reunification: From 1990 to 1997 169

10 Reunification and Fashioning a New Political Order: From 1998 to 2009 199

Appendix I Survey of Public Opinion about the Chinese Communist Party 2007 237

Appendix II The VIPs Invited to Witness the Signing of the Sino- British Joint Declaration 243

Appendix III Members of the Basic Law Drafting Committee and Basic Law Consultative Committee 247

Appendix IV Status Markers in Key Political Institutions Relating to Hong Kong 250

Appendix V Olympic Torch Bearers 2008 257

Notes 263

Bibliography 317

Biographies 325

Chinese Publications 339

Index 341