Chinese Whispers

How Hong Kong became what it is today

41 min listen

In This Episode

As the first BNO passport holders begin to make their way to the UK and start the path to a new citizenship, Cindy Yu takes a look back at Hong Kong’s history and how that special city-state formed its own identity. As SOAS’s Professor Steve Tsang tells her on the podcast: ‘Not quite British, not quite Chinese’. They talk about how Hong Kongers yearned to find their Chinese roots, the fervour of handover and how ‘Cantopop’ (Cantonese pop music) took the mainland by storm.

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