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06-18-2007 10:12

To commemorate the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on 1 July 1997, a number of striking images were published. They included a poster featuring Deng Xiaoping, the intellectual father of the "One Country, Two Systems" policy, extolling the virtues of the principle under which Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule while maintaining "a high degree of autonomy" for a period of at least fifty years. Deng is surrounded by the "images of China" --Tian'anmen, the Great Wall and others-- that have become so popular in 1990s poster art, while looking down on the Hong Kong office of the Bank of China and the new Foreign Ministry building.