Star Ferry Pier

This guide to the Star Ferry Pier in Hong Kong centers on a spring morning in 1966, when a twenty-seven-year-old translator named So Sau-chung sat down alone at the pier with a handwritten sign, refusing to eat in protest of a proposed fare hike. It follows what happened when police moved to arrest him the next afternoon, and how word of it spread across the harbour to Nathan Road in Kowloon. Along the way it touches on the Star Ferry's own history, crossing this same route since 1888. Listen at the pier railing, facing the crossing to Kowloon.