My visit to Hong Kong was June - July, 1997 covering the Handover of Hong Kong for CBS Radio.

China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong on Tuesday, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
It was an event awaited with trepidation as well as excitement since 1984, when Britain and China agreed on terms for the transfer of power over this territory wrested from China in the 19th century wars over the opium trade. And it ushered in a time of uncertainty over whether China would honor its pledge to maintain Hong Kong's way of life largely unaltered for the next 50 years.

For many ordinary people in the streets of Hong Kong, this was a time of celebration, not necessarily over the departure of the British or the arrival of the new masters from Beijing, but for the experience of witnessing a big moment in history.