History of Hong Kong

Concise History Of Hong Kong was a prequel to one of the most fascinating places I have ever traveled to. Going through history class, and growing up, I had heard many stories of Hong Kong, China, Britain, and Japan, but I never realized how intertwined they truly were and how their stories were really told. John Carroll did a remarkable job setting the scene for what Hong Kong was, where they had been, and how they made it through all of it and came out with their own identity. Hong Kong is a bustling

The history of Hong Kong and the opium trade are “intertwined”, as Christopher Munn states (107). From its beginning in the nineteenth century, the opium trade in Hong Kong, as counterparts throughout the colonies of Southeast Asia, was managed by a monopoly or farm system. The opium monopoly not only contributed a large portion of revenue to the colonial government, but also helped foster a Chinese business elite class with wealth and political influence in the Chinese community and the colony,

worth noting that an aged graffiti artist in Hong Kong living under an eccentric self-imposed pseudonym of ‘King of Kowloon’, had managed to garner significant recognition from not only within the city in which he had created numerous works, but also from the international community. The so-called ‘King of Kowloon‘, whose actual name was known as Tsang Tsou Choi, passed away in 2007, but he remains in the memories of many as a major cultural icon of Hong Kong, a highly unique and innovative figure that

new phenomenon of activism driven by media technologies has been widely used in Hong Kong to retain human rights, protesting for more autonomy and democracy. Given the ability of online activism to raise awareness and rally support for different political or social movements, it places great challenge for the Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese authorities to keep their power intact. This paper will examines how Hong Kong civil societies have used online activism to

precision music played, the sovereignty of Hong Kong was returned from Britain to China officially in a ceremony held on July 1st, 1997. The ceremony symbolized that Hong Kong moved into a new era that is a dramatic change from capitalist territory to Communist control and in the meanwhile, the colonial power of Britain in Hong Kong was eventually declared the end. The purpose of this research paper is to analyze the reasons for the relinquishment of Hong Kong from three aspects that is historical background

neighboring states. This method of exacting obedience and submission was extended with the Canton System in 1757. Adopted as a means of preserving national security, the policy limited foreign access to Canton, a trading port on the southern coast of China. Hong merchants served as exclusive liaisons between foreigners and the Chinese. Officially

The Opium War was a war between the United Kingdom and Imperial China. Smoking opium for the stimulating impacts is not noted in China until the eighteenth century, but rather likely started at some point before. The Chinese Imperial Government in the mid eighteenth century turned out to be progressively concerned with the spreading dependence on opium and its crippling impact. The Imperial Government disallowed the offer of opium blended with tobacco and banned opium-smoking houses (1729). The Government

businessman fleeing to Hong Kong after 1949. What is the significance of this detail of patronymic? Is it a symbol of the similarity of the father and son? In my view, it is a symbol of the repetition rather than the similarity of this two generations living in Hong Kong, a colonial city without history. Both generations live in this city with the desire of capital and without any disturbance of politics. As the protagonist signs: “We seem to live in the last chapter of history, the end of ideological

When those words are being written down, a huge protest named “Occupy Central” is taking place in Hong Kong. At this critical moment of history, what impresses us first from the name of this protest is a power of space: Hong Kong people, who is regarded as the peripheral of China, by occupying the Central (a sub-center), strive for becoming visible and hearable to the center (Beijing) to resist their doomed future: an ostensible “direct election” in 2017, or even worse political sufferings that people

Opium War and the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, Hong Kong was signed off to Great Britain as their colony. From then on, Hong Kong was transformed from the headquarters of fisherman and pirates to a major port in world trade, and one of Great Britain's most important colonies (Mills 373). After Britain's colonization of Hong Kong, many changes were put in place which permanently altered their society. Therefore, British imperialism tremendously impacted Hong Kong’s socio-economics and changed nearly every