Dorothy Liu Yiu-chu (Chinese: 廖瑤珠; 8 July 1934 – 30 March 1997) was a prominent Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician and lawyer.
She later dropped her English name to emphasize her Chineseness, but it was still commonly used in the local media and she was nicknamed Dotty, partly because it evoked her eccentric character.
[citation needed] In the 1980s, Liu was invited to join the preparatory work for setting up the Hong Kong constitution after 1997 when it was handed over to Chinese rule.
[1] In the annual NPC meeting early the following year, Liu attacked a decision to purge a senior Chinese deputy for his role in the unrest.
"There will be fluctuating times: when the central government [in Peking] may be more dictatorial towards Hong Kong; may fail to allow us to have the high degree of autonomy promised to us," she warned in a newspaper interview published in December 1996.
She also wept when seated next to a former top adviser to the British, Sir Chung Sze-yuen, at a committee meeting for making arrangements for the transition.
[1] However, Liu asked for her ashes to be scattered in San Francisco where her son lives, as she said she did not want her remains to "take up land in China, which is precious to poor farmers".