Historical symbols quietly changing In June 1997, with less than a month to go before Hong Kong officially returns to the "motherland" on 1 July, the whole world's gaze is turned towards the territory. In the streets and shops, people are eating dim sum or shopping as usual, and there are no outward portents of "transition." But below this unruffled surface, many changes are quietly taking place.
一九九七年六月，距離七月一日香港正式回歸「祖國」的日子僅一個月不滿，全世界目光所及的香港，街市上，飲茶、購物的人們如常，一點也看不出有什麼「過渡」的症兆，但是在平靜的表面下，許多變化卻已悄悄地發生。