Lord Christopher Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, responded to the controversy over whether Hong Kong was once a colony at the launch of his new book on June 20. He said, “As the last Governor of Hong Kong, I do exist, and I am not a person made out of imagination.” This question followed what happened a few days ago. The media discovered that several textbooks on “Citizenship and Social Development (CSD)” submitted for review, all stated that “Hong Kong was not a colony,” which aroused heated discussions in the society. Yeung Wing Yu, a historian, pointed out that the statement, “Hong Kong is not a colony,” is one hundred per cent rewriting and tampering of history….
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