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14. Agency and History + Hong Kong and China Between the Tides

History in Focus

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The Politics of the Borderlands

The story you're referring to is something that I found in Hong Kong's government archives. This is a story about someone called Widdoman in 1966. Her children were kidnapped from the Hong Kong coast, the northern coast. In this story she decides to take matters into her own hands, frost the border herself and see if she can secure the release of her children. But along the way I discovered all kinds of other stories, narratives and social changes among these communities who live and work the border.

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