Books like A Concise History of Hong Kong

Honestly, I picked up this book only because of the translation controversy. I have been reading books in more details than a "concise history", so I am not expecting much from this book. I am more interested in why a pro-PRC press is interested in offering a Chinese version.Surprisingly this book is written with much more depth than i had thought. Granted, covering history of Hong Kong since 1841 in about 200 pages has to be nothing but "concise" as the title suggest. This book, however, is not a dull record of events after one another. It is logically organized in different periods, mostly focusing on the people, rather than the political changes in those periods. You can read analyses about the what kind of people live in HK and how they live their lives and what they think. This book includes lots of recent research results. The references are fairly recent. Many materials, backed by solid evidences, challenge the Chinese nationalist propaganda, that PRC has been tirelessly spreading in the past few decades.It was fun reading this book. I couldn't put it down until I finished it the day after I started. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in Hong Kong history but haven't read any about it. I also find the bibliography helpful as I want to dig deeper on certain events, such as the HK in WWII and the 1967 riot.Why is a pro-PRC press interested in owning the translation? It becomes clear that by omitting some of the most sensible comments towards the PRC and mistranslating some, especially its role in HK's democratic progress, the manipulated Chinese version can potentially be used as the nationalist propaganda against the recent sentiment that PRC is worse off governing than the highly missed British. This book paints British colonial government as a rational yet self-serving government not without mistakes. It also mentions the dark side in HK's golden era between the 70's and 1997. The imperialist British theme is consistent with the national education that the PRC controlled HK government tried to push to public school students last year.