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I went to art school in Hong Kong in the late 1980s when the future of this former colony was settled with a date that was somehow remote for me—ten years is long for a teenager. I was naive; art, society, identity, and sovereignty were not necessarily on my mind.
One of my teachers once said the art trends in Hong Kong back then were somehow ten years behind the mainstream in the West. Many
