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5 days ago · The handover marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong, which was Britain's last substantial overseas territory.
6 days ago · 英屬香港（英語： British Hong Kong ）是指1841年至1997年期间由英国統治的香港 [2] ，歷時156年的殖民地及屬地時期（包括香港日佔時期 [註 1] ），一般稱為香港英治時期、香港殖民地時期、英治香港或者港英時期。
6 days ago · Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, located to the east of the Pearl River estuary on the south coast of China. Hong Kong was a British territory for decades until it rejoined China in 1997. It is a vibrant cultural and financial center.
Oct 2, 2024 · Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898.
Sep 27, 2024 · Hong Kong - Postwar, Economy, Politics: British troops returned to the city on August 30, 1945, and civil government was reestablished in May 1946. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Chinese and foreigners returned, and they were soon joined by economic and political refugees from China, who were fleeing the civil war between the ...
Sep 24, 2024 · Extract. How did the evolution of the British empire shape what it meant to be British? In particular, in the context of Hong Kong, a Chinese city in many ways but formally a British colony from 1843 to 1997, how did its multiracial constituents “negotiate with one another the meaning of being British” (1), especially in the first half of the twentieth century, when eugenics, nationalism ...
Sep 9, 2024 · Hong Kong island became British in 1841, and an “informal empire” operated in China by way of British treaty ports and the great trading city of Shanghai.
Sep 19, 2024 · Ollie Barnes encountered Hong Kong history on honeymoon and, powerfully, in the classroom in Nottinghamshire. Historical changes in the former colony’s present had resulted in increasing numbers of Hong Kongers arriving in school.
