text: Although the Immigration Department granted him a temporary permit to stay in the territory, some people protested, shouting slogans like “return to the mainland” outside the Confucian Tai Shing Primary School, whose principal had voiced interest in offering the boy a place at the school if authorities allowed it.
  The case of Yau-wai is a tragic one. He was abandoned by his parents when he was still an infant. Yet in the new land where he began his first lessons, he learns to be scared of his surroundings and to live in fear of being arrested day after day. And when finally he turns himself in, he is rejected by the people of the land. With the hurt of rejection he finally decided to leave Hong Kong. Even more tragic are the few so-called localist groups who celebrated Yau-wai’s return to the mainland.