煲呔時期民主停滯原因以及回歸後中史書內容増減

Tsang enjoys the support of the business magnates (巨頭) who urged Beijing to remove Tung. Like the PRC leaders, these tycoons oppose greater democratic reform in Hong Kong. The PRC leaders fears that democratization in Hong Kong might fuel demands for the same on the mainland, while both PRC leaders and the local business mogul (大亨) worry that democratization would result in higher taxes and in demands for more government spending. Thus, Tsang will have to perform a very careful balancing act: not alienating (疏遠) his business supporters, proving his loyalty to China after so many years of dedicated service to the British, and satisfying the ordinary people who are fed up with government and business elites colluding (共謀) to determine Hong Kong's future without popular input.

When school began in September 1997, the Chinese history textbooks in Hong Kong were noticeably thinner than in previous years. In late 1995, Beijing had called for (要求) general changes in Hong Kong textbooks, but in early 1997 Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen (錢其琛) declared that history textbooks should be rewritten "to suit the changes after 1997." Responding to appeals from Beijing, local publishers deleted or reduced topics that might be offensive or controversial: for example, Taiwan and Tibet history, the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward, and the democracy movements in China during the late 1970s and in 1989. The Tiananmen Square Massacre [ˋmæsəkə] was rephrased as merely an "incident" rather than a "crackdown." The new textbooks devoted considerably more space to the Opium Wars, which in pre-1997 textbooks had often been described as little more than a trade conflict, and to the Cultural Revolution, which had affected several of China's leaders.

Carroll, J.M. (2007). A Concise History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.