Let's All Shut Up and Make Money: Hong Kong’s Last 100 Days as a British Colony

By (author): "Larry Feign"
Let's All Shut Up and Make Money: Hong Kong’s Last 100 Days as a British Colony
ISBN962786613X
ISBN139789627866138
AsinLet's All Shut Up and Make Money: Hong Kong’s Last 100 Days as a British Colony
CharactersLily Wong
THE END OF EMPIRE...and of cartoons as we know them!Find out what really happened during those final days as the countdown clock ticked, in this special 20th anniversary edition: * Pre-handover supermarket specials * Last-minute pregnancies before the one-child policy kicks in * The great tacky souvenir epidemic * The invasion of the foreign reporters * Britain lifts a finger for Hong Kong...plus the Talks, the Banquet, and an international cast of characters.Includes the entire series of “Lily Wong” cartoons written during the last 100 days, plus: Feign’s cartoon essay for Time Magazine The Post-Handover Weather Report from German magazine Geo Other previously-unpublished cartoons A Politically Incorrect View of the HandoverTwenty years after the event, see how many of Feign’s predictions came true.You’ll laugh at this book almost as loud as Chinese leaders laugh at Hong Kong people’s calls for democracy!"Feign has a piercing sense of irony and is laugh-out-loud funny."-Nury Vittachi, Far Eastern Economic Review"Gratuitous cracks at po faced pontifications on the territory."-Geremie Barme, The Australian"I was furious!"-Allen Lee, HK politician, commenting on Feign's cartoons in "The Last Governor" by Jonathan Dimbleby