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Title: Mark Roberti collection
Dates: 1952-1992
Collection Number: 97007
Collector: Roberti, Mark, 1961- , collector
Collection Size:
5 manuscript boxes
(2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Dispatches, reports, memoranda, and sound recordings, relating to negotiations and plans for the transfer of Hong Kong from
British to Chinese sovereignty. Includes photocopies of United States State Department documents released under the Freedom
of Information Act; drafts of the Basic Law of Hong Kong; and recordings of interviews of British and Chinese officials. Used
as research material for the book by Mark Roberti, The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal (New York,
1994).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
Boxes 3-4 closed until 2014 September 26. Box 5 closed until 2027 June 30.
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Mark Roberti collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1997.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
Dispatches, reports, memoranda, and sound recordings, relating to negotiations and plans for the transfer of Hong Kong from
British to Chinese sovereignty. Includes photocopies of United States State Department documents released under the Freedom
of Information Act; drafts of the Basic Law of Hong Kong; and recordings of interviews of British and Chinese officials. Used
as research material for the book by Mark Roberti, The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal (New York,
1994).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hong Kong (China)--Politics and government.
China--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--China.
Hong Kong (China)--History--Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997.
Phonotapes.
United States. Dept. of State.