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- ↑ Steve Tsang (1995), Government and Politics: A Documentary History of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, ISBN 978-962-209-392-8
- ↑ Sze-yuen Chung, 2001, Hong Kong's Journey to Reunification: Memoirs of Sze-yuen Chung, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, Chapter 4
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