A death in Hong Kong : the MacLennan case of 1980 and the suppression of a scandal (2nd Edition)  A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal (2nd Edition) 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2574765B

  Author(s)

  Collett, Nigel

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  China 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789629375577 

  Date of Publication

  2020 

  Edition

  2nd edition 

  Publisher

  Xianggang cheng shi da xue chu ban she  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  492 

  Series

  Royal Asiatic society Hong Kong studies series 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Law

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Collett, Nigel

  Publisher

  香港城市大學出版社  

• Description

  A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal (2nd Edition) In January 1980, a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His death came mere hours before he was to be arrested for committing homosexual acts still, at that point, illegal in Hong Kong. But this was more than the desperate act of a young man, ashamed and afraid; both his death and the subsequent investigation were a smokescreen for a scandal that went to the heart of the establishment. MacLennan came to Hong Kong from Scotland during a tumultuous time in Hong Kong’s history. The governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose was to be a time of reform and progress, but with that remit came the determination of many to suppress scandals and silence those who stirred up trouble. Both the life and death of John MacLennan seemed to many of those in power to threaten the stability of one of Britain’s last colonies. The second edition includes a foreword by Christine Loh (former undersecretary for the environment, former legislator, and founder of Civic Exchange) as well as updated information from new interviews with key people involved in the case. With endorsements from human rights researchers and the local community, this book provides insight into Hong Kong during a time of social unrest and corruption scandals, a time when homosexuality and paedophilia were often considered interchangeable and both offered easy targets for blackmail.