Former senior Administrative Officer David T. K. Wong has produced a cerebral and revelatory insider memoir of his experiences in the upper reaches of the Hong Kong colonial administration during the 1970s. He struggled with a three-horned dilemma: how to serve the people of Hong Kong, who paid his salary; the wider Chinese nation, from which he was culturally and emotionally inseparable; and the demands of the British crown, to which he had sworn his allegiance.
