tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523517.post112351148035507355..comments2023-09-09T17:38:22.939+08:00Comments on Blogging... Walk The Talk: Back To 1982: A Shock Poll About the HandoverDave and Stefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03374243021807086912noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523517.post-1123590521699003092005-08-09T20:28:00.000+08:002005-08-09T20:28:00.000+08:00yes....it can't have been much fun...After I poste...yes....it can't have been much fun...<BR/><BR/>After I posted the above comment I was trying to remember the name of a novel that came out a short time before the hand over...it ended with a 'Tiananmen Square style massacre in Victoria Park'...I think the name was '1997, the Year of the Ox'... or something similar. It just seemed fairly typical of the way the media and the rest of the world saw HK at that time.Madame Chianghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493771717653319376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523517.post-1123576530711192552005-08-09T16:35:00.000+08:002005-08-09T16:35:00.000+08:00Must have been so deprerssing to have been a gloom...Must have been so deprerssing to have been a gloom-and-doom, knowing-little-about-HK reporter from the States trying desperately to drum up a story about the Handover, having nothing happen and to have the final indignity of a huge rainstorm get you and your equipment soaking wet...Dave and Stefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03374243021807086912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523517.post-1123571907614349632005-08-09T15:18:00.000+08:002005-08-09T15:18:00.000+08:00this post made me smile...remembering the build up...this post made me smile...remembering the build up to the hand over and the world's media forecasting the doom, gloom and fear that would occur come midnight on 30th June '97.....and as you say...it hasn't been all bad!!!Madame Chianghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493771717653319376noreply@blogger.com