Hong Kong: Love in a divided city

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Unprecedented mass protests have caused chaos in Hong Kong’s public sphere – but what has it meant for private life? How have they affected the increasing number of couples who have married across the divide, with one partner from Hong Kong and another from the Chinese mainland? BBC World Affairs correspondent Paul Adams hears from one such couple, for whom the political has become personal.

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0:00.0	What you're about to hear is a love story.
0:05.0	So we met in 2017 and start talking and we gradually become more fond of each other.
0:14.0	It's about two young people being true to themselves and each other in the face of
0:19.3	tumultuous and destructive events.
0:22.2	Two people from very different backgrounds,
0:24.8	married less than a year,
0:26.3	and now forced to navigate a crisis
0:28.7	that's tearing their world apart.
0:30.7	I really, really don't want him being arrested or something like that.
0:36.0	I'm Paul Adams. You're listening to the BBC World Service.
0:40.0	This is Hong Kong, love in a divided city
0:50.2	It's lunch time.
0:51.2	Daniel and Jane are sitting in a booth in their favorite noodle restaurant
0:55.4	discussing chilies.
0:57.3	Hong Kong dishes are not spicy, but where I'm from we eat spicy food like our daily food.
1:07.0	So when I came to Hong Kong I feel very, I'm not used to the food.
1:13.0	Yeah, the stable food in her hometown is some
1:17.0	chili fried pork.
1:18.0	Chili fried pork.
1:20.0	Yeah, chili fried pork, with different kind of chili, green chili, red
1:23.1	chili altogether. Just lots of chili. Yeah, just different mixes of
1:27.2	chili. Are you always trying to sneak a few chilies into the dish?
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