Wing Lam Chan

01 The Braid Girl 辮子姑娘

It is said that the long-braided spirit was once a rural girl fleeing from mainland China to Hong Kong. Driven by the immigration policy, she tied her Hong Kong dream into her braid and boarded a train toward the city. Mistaking a passing station for the final stop, she abandoned everything behind and jumped prematurely. Her reckless leap—marked the tragic end of her journey. The piece reframes the rhetoric of the “Great Leap Forward” through bitter irony, reflecting on immigrant tragedies shaped by the Hong Kong’s Touch Base Policy during the 1970s.