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Hong Kong is 98% Chinese. Although the territory's official languages are English and Cantonese, the use of Mandarin (or Putonghua), China's official language, is on the rise. Among the non-Chinese living in Hong Kong, some 150,000 Filipinos make up the largest foreign community; most are women working as maids and nannies (amahs in local parlance), and can be seen socializing in Statue Square on their day off, usually Sunday.

Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. The British owned Hong Kong Island, but the New Territories -- the part of Hong Kong on the mainland -- had been leased from China in 1898. It was the expiration of this 99-year lease that necessitated Britain's handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

In hindsight, the handover looks anticlimactic. The rest of the world was always more apprehensive about Chinese rule than were most Hong Kongers, for whom business takes precedence over all other issues. It was the Asian crisis, whic