The Washington Post, March 30th, 1997
You might call Chan Pok-wah an unfortunate side effect of Hong Kong's cutthroat brand of competitive capitalism. He occupies the invisible underside of the Asian economic miracle. From where he sits, Chan has a good view of this colony's seemingly unbounded affluence and its rampant consumerism. Chan is an amputee and a homeless street beggar, and most days he can be found hunched down against the wall of the pedestrian tunnel that runs from the posh Mandarin Oriental hotel to the central post office and the Star Ferry at Victoria Harbor. For Chan, the Gucci shoes, the fashionable pumps, the d...
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