As in the case of all transitions involving politically repressive regimes, the approach of 1 July 1997 (the date on which the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong will be handed over to the People's Republic of China [PRC]) has become an occasion for a considerable amount of anxiety over speech. What can be said and how to say it are increasingly sensitive, because political, matters. Many would argue, of course, that within the PRC these days, there is actually much more freedom to say what one likesthat even the traditionally taboo subject of sex, for instance, can now be
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Rey Chow (1997) studied this question.