To celebrate our 500th issue of Hong Kong Tatler, take a look back at the editions marking the four previous centennial milestones since the magazine’s founding more than 40 years ago
Back to the future
With less than four years to run until the handover of Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997, the October 1993 edition of Hong Kong Tatler, the 200th, considered the political powers of post-colonial rule. Would Baroness Dunn and Anson Chan have scuppered their chances to remain in the spotlight as a result of their close ties to the British administration, and would Zhou Nan, Vincent Lo, Rita Fan or Tsang Yok-sin rise to power?
There were also the matters of the triads, the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the judiciary to consider when Beijing took the helm. It was all addressed here in hard-hitting style.