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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.
