As Hong Kong prepared to return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, the end of martial law in Taiwan made its political future less certain in the mid-1980s, and anti-Chinese sentiments in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world continued to take their toll, the heroism of a Chinese fugitive without a country could be appreciated by all those Chinese who felt "forever foreign- [4] inside of America because of racism or outside of the United States because of the legacy of colonialism. ...

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