Joshua Wong reflects on Hong Kong’s 1997 handover: “We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy”
This extract has been excerpted with permission from PEN Hong Kong from the essay “My Journey as a Student Activist,” by Joshua Wong, part of the anthology Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a Borrowed Place, out this month from Blacksmith Books. I’m a twenty-year-old university student, born a year before the handover. Having grown up…