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INTRODUCTION

Hong Kong plays a critical and central role in Asian Pacific media and remains the most important window on greater China. This page documents the opinions of domestic and foreign journalists in Hong Kong in the year of transition, 1997. It includes the transcripts of interviews, edited sections of speeches and documents.

Dateline Hong Kong was created in a lap top on a kitchen table in a Pokfulam high rise in 1997. With the uncertainties which preceded the handover, it initially acted as a way of archiving material offshore. As the site developed, it formed a growing resource for media studies students. In the end, it provided a stimulus for Reporting Hong Kong, the book about handover coverage.

Alan Knight is the site editor.

The Handover File

You can have freedom of speech without democratic government...but those freedoms may become difficult to exercise if the government has no need for accountability. A paper presented at the East West Centre Conference for Journalists, Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club 15/11/97.

Hong Kong's handover to China poses a host of questions for journalists. Hong Kong seems to be operating as it did under the British. Freedom of speech appears unaffected by the transition to Chinese sovereignty. So far, China has stayed its hand. Yet many questions remain unanswered.
We are saving money we would normally spend on floor space and will plow it back into the editorial operations: Rodney Pinder. In the first major media move since the handover, the British based Reuter news agency is shifting its Asian base of operations from the former colony of Hong Kong to the Republic of Singapore.
No Karaoke for Mainland Journalists covering handover. China may be placing less restrictions on visiting foreigners. But Propaganda Department hard-liners became alarmed that the mainland journalists visiting the open city of Hong Kong might just pick up unwelcome ideas, uncensored information and meet people who might criticise Beijing. They produced some simple guidelines for behaviour.
Things are pretty free these days in China.: Claire Hollingworth. At the age of 85, Claire Hollingworth has been an active correspondent for almost six decades. She opened the Telegraph office in Beijing at the end of the Cultural Revolution and later reported on the Tiananmen Square massacre.
A lot of journalists will tone down and keep quiet. A few will remain very critical. So you will see bigger differences between the two groups.: Dr. Y. Joseph Lian, the Editor of the Hong Kong Economic Journal. In this interview conducted on Handover Day, Dr Lian argues that Hong Kong journalists should engage in brinkmanship with the governments of the Special Administrative Region and Greater China.

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