In the years leading up the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China, hundreds of thousands of residents fearful of communist rule moved abroad. It’s like that movie, ‘Nightmare on Elm Street.’”::Lui shares her mother’s desire for democracy, but she wants to stay in Hong Kong and fight. The increase has rekindled memories of the 1990s, when an estimated 800,000 people fled Hong Kong. That launched a period of unprecedented upward mobility for Hong Kong natives who remained. He holds out hope that Hong Kong will return to the “good old days” before it was beset by unrest.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 18, 2019 01:41 UTC