The Independent - London, March 30th, 1997
It was the party of the century; the night when 156 years of British Empire ended with the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese rule; a night of celebration and mayhem, marked by the kind of manic partying that masks a barely suppressed fear of the unknown.
Along the crowded streets of Lan Kwai Fong, British and Chinese revellers, many with their faces painted in the colours of the Chinese flag, danced, catcalled and drank, waving their red pennants. Ahead of me four Asian students dressed as PLA guards danced to patriotic mainland tunes on a boogiebox, its trumpeting strains lost against the ch...
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