On July 1, 1997 the United Kingdom formally handed Hong Kong over to China under an agreement that was supposed to give Hong Kong 50 years of autonomy: “one country, two systems,” Deng Xiaoping promised. That same year, students and professors at the University of Hong Kong erected a statue, called “Pillar of Shame,” to More

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