Sure, opulent for the French, Americans and British who carved up the concessions, monopolized the godowns along the port and forced the sale of opium to deaden the public. Not so opulent for them. All of these unequal treaties in ports along the coast, including HK, is why Beijing takes the hard line it does today. They teach these great humiliations to billions of students in primary school and vow never to let it happen again and then we are shocked when they stand up to foreign powers or internal threats. I sympathise with the young people but hope they pack it in before they become statistics, as this doesn't end well if protests continue to spiral out of control.