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3 days ago · Handover of Hong Kong, transfer of the British crown colony of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, ending 156 years of British rule. After a formal handover ceremony on July 1, 1997, the colony became the Hong Kong special administrative region (HKSAR) of the People’s Republic of China.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Hong Kong, 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 possession for decades until it rejoined China in 1997. It is a vibrant cultural and financial center of Chinese society.
- Chi-Keung Leung
5 days ago · 英屬香港（英語： British Hong Kong ），是指1841年至1997年期間由英國統治的香港 ，歷時156年的殖民地及屬地時期（包括香港日佔時期 ），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。
1 day ago · In 1842, the Qing dynasty was forced to sign the Treaty of Nanking—the first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treaties—which granted an indemnity and extraterritoriality to British subjects in China, opened five treaty ports to British merchants, and ceded Hong Kong Island to the British Empire.
5 days ago · 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 ...
5 days ago · Jun 24, 2024, 01:47 PM. HONG KONG - A senior British judge on Monday heard a protest-related case in Hong Kong involving seven high profile democrats, fuelling a row over whether foreign judges ...
6 days ago · Britain’s Royal Navy thought so, and sent some state-of-the-art subs to Hong Kong in the 1920s, with mixed results. South China Morning Post When a Hong Kong-based submarine hunting pirates ...
