The end of the Vietnam War sent vast numbers of refugees fleeing the country. Most of them piled onto rickety, overcrowded boats, making it as far as Hong Kong, where more than 200,000 people sailed into the harbour. What they found was not freedom, however, but years of harsh confinement.
越南戰爭的結束使大量難民逃離該國。 他們中的大多數人堆在搖搖欲墜，人滿為患的船上，直達香港，超過20萬人駛入海港。 然而，他們發現的不是自由，而是多年的嚴格監禁。
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‘Fighting until the end: Hong Kong’s Vietnamese Refugees‘
by Christopher DeWolf for Zolima CityMag [2019]
All photos kindly provided by Carina Hoang of vietnameseboatpeople.hk
Photo: Nikki Wing
Christopher DeWolf is the managing editor of Zolima CityMag. His work on urbanism, architecture, design, art and culture has also appeared in the South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME, the BBC and many other media outlets. His book on Hong Kong's unique urban culture, Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong, was published by Penguin in 2017.
Christopher DeWolf是Zolima CityMag的執行編輯。 他在城市主義，建築，設計，藝術和文化方面的工作還出現在《南華早報》，《華爾街日報》，《時代》，英國廣播公司和許多其他媒體上。 企鵝出版社於2017年出版了有關香港獨特城市文化的書《借來的空間：現代香港之間的生活》。