Many people in the audience remembered seeing police officers replacing their cap badges as sovereignty was transferred at the stroke of midnight on handover night. But of those, far fewer had expected to still be here 20 years later.įirst question went to Rachel Cartland, author of Paper Tigress, an account of her 34 years working in the Hong Kong government. I started off by asking how many of the crowd were in Hong Kong on that rainy night of June 30, 1997. Close to a hundred people filled the Bookazine bookshop in Prince’s Building, Hong Kong, on the evening of June 15, to hear six local authors discuss the 20 years which have passed since the handover in 1997.Īs the publisher of four of these writers, I was roped in to MC the event.
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