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Streets of Hong Kong, 1865 Beaconsfield Arcade, Hong Kong, c.1890. The building on the left is the HSBC building (second design) China was the main supplier of its native tea to the British, whose annual domestic consumption reached 30,050,000 pounds (13,600,000 kg) in 1830, an average of 1.04 pounds (0.47 kg) per head of population.
The Star ferry is an icon of Hong Kong, being one of the oldest public transport systems in the city and used to be one of the only ways to get from Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. The star ferry is still popular today providing iconic sights and perspectives from the Victoria Harbour
Hong Kong's History: State and Society Under Colonial Rule. Routledge. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-415-20868-0. Siu-Kai, Lau. "The Hong Kong Policy of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1997." Journal of Contemporary China 9.23 (2000): 77–93. Snow, Philip. The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation (2004) excerpt and text ...
Hong Kong Heritage Museum , managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) Hong Kong Museum of History (Tsim Sha Tsui) (LCSD) Hong Kong Public Records Building is an archival facility for the preservation of records of the Hong Kong Government. It is run by Government Records Service and located in Kwun Tong near Tsui Ping ...
Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of one country, two systems. [ g ] Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] the territory is now one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports.
Hong Kong: 1978: focused on Hong Kong culture and ethnography. [10] Hong Kong Heritage Project Hong Kong: 2007: founded by Sir Michael Kadoorie to collect, preserve, and make available records and documentation related to Hong Kong's social and cultural heritage. [11] Hong Kong History Centre: History Department, the University of Bristol ...
There are 35 athletes from Hong Kong in the 2024 Paris Olympics. They are: Fencing. Daphne Chan. No Wai Hang. Vivian Kong (who made history as the first woman from Hong Kong to win a gold medal in ...
An Eastern Entrepôt: A Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Hong Kong. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 293. Lui, Adam Yuen-chung (1990). Forts and Pirates: A History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong History Society. p. 114. ISBN 978-9-627-48901-6. Liu, Shuyong (1997). An Outline History of Hong Kong. Translated by ...