adhering to the handover agreement with the british from 1907 professor song in your book a modern history of hong kong you write about the british presence in hong kong and here's a quote from your book we want to share with our viewers you write it led to the rise of a people that remains quintessentially chinese and yet shares a way of life core values and an outlook that resembles at least as much if not more that of an average new yorker or london nerve rather than that of their compatriots in china i mean what the hong konger is are saying are more like folks in manhattan and they are like people in beijing maybe i mean it is this part of the problem that we're seeing in hong kong right now yes i see you actually. give a reason why people in hong kong when out in enormous numbers last sunday. at