Identity Card: A Particular Hong Kong Perspective

It’s been 14 years since Hong Kong became a sovereign part of the People’s Republic of China. People continue to dance, and the horses continue to run, but below the apparent surface bonhomie lie political, economic and cultural tensions.

Much of that is rooted in the imprecise yet critical issue of identity: How do Hong Kongers see themselves, their home territory, and one another? As an ethnic Indian person born and raised in Hong Kong, Zoher Abdoolcarim presents, from a personal perspective, a very different Hong Kong.