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The 1997 Hong Kong handover was no laughing matter...or maybe it was!Read the cartoons that chronicled the End of Empire, in this special 20th anniversary edition. In March 1997 controversial, award-winning cartoonist Larry Feign was commissioned by a British newspaper to chronicle an unprecedented moment in history-The Reunification of China! The End of the British Empire!-and all the rumors, worst-case scenarios and unforgettable events: Pre-handover supermarket specials Last-minute pregnancies before the one-child policy kicked in The greatest onslaught of tacky souvenirs in history The invasion of the foreign journalists Britain finally lifts a finger for Hong Kong This book contains the entire series, plus cartoons from Time, Geo Magazine, and several previously unpublished cartoons, as well as A Politically Incorrect View of the Handover. You'll laugh almost as loud as Chinese leaders laugh at Hong Kong people's calls for democracy.

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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

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Larry Feign has been disappointing his mother since the age of seven, when he decided to become a writer and cartoonist instead of a brain surgeon or senior partner in a leading law firm. To her annoyance, Larry's work has appeared in hundreds of publications around the world and he is the author of 14 books. He has worked as a caricaturist in Hawaii, animator in Hollywood, and cartoonist in London and Hong Kong. Larry considers himself a generic American. He currently resides in the remote wilderness of Lantau Island with his wife, children, dogs, beehive and the occasional visiting snake.

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