ABSTRACT
Since the Introduction to this volume was written in the spring of 1966, Hong Kong has seen two riots in quick succession—April 1966 and May–August 1967. This recurrence, after ten years, of the violence feared and planned for by government and police, raises questions both about the internal stability of the Colony, and about China’s attitude towards it. At the risk of the word ‘transition’ in Hong Kong: A Society in Transition taking on a quite unwanted irony, the following reflections are offered and dated in case events do outrun them.
