Canadian Hong Kongers
By the time the Union Jack fell at midnight in Hong Kong’s Statue Square on June 30, 1997, hundreds of thousands of the city’s residents had already left the territory that Britain ruled for 155 years – many right after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing convinced them that a grim post-colonial future awaited them if they stayed.
Ten years lat…
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