SCHOLARISM ON THE MARCH
In: New left review: NLR, Heft 92, S. 43-52
ISSN: 0028-6060
MY PARENTS COME from Hong Kong's lower class, who mostly live in public-housing estates or villages. But they studied hard, did well in their exams, and got into Hong Kong University. With their degrees they were able to find jobs in middle-class occupations-my father with an IT company, my mother in family counselling. So I was brought up in a typical Hong Kong middle-class family, on a private housing estate. I was born in 1996, the year before Hong Kong's handover. Adapted from the source document.