History of Hong Kong

Hong Kong occupies a unique place in history; it exists as a city with an expiration date. In his films, Wong Kar-wai is known for exploring the idea of deja desparu—the already disappeared. In the Mood for Love was his first film following the 1997 transition, when the city changed from being a colony of Great Britain to the Special Administrative Region of China. The film explores the post-1997 mood and experiences a true sense of nostalgia, not for the past, but for that which could have been

There are two cities that I found to have apparent differences from one another. Houston and Hong Kong come with various differences, and who could have known that Houston and Hong Kong have so many different features? Houston and Hong Kong are vastly different from each other when it comes to the three main features - education, transportation, and domestic life. Houston and Hong Kong have distinct differences in education. On the one hand, the weekly duration and the amount of hours spent in

BACKGROUND Hong Kong, is located on the southeast coast of China, the diplomatic location of Hong Kong on the South China Sea and Pearl River Delta helps it to become one of the world growing and worldly cities (Hong Kong Tourism Board, 2015). Before 18th century, Hong Kong was still an agricultural and manufacturing industries. In early 80’s to late 90’s, Hong Kong lost the comparative advantage in manufacturing as the opening up and reformation of the Mainland China, but the comparative advantage

approximately 1867 when Hong Kong and Shanghai bank was founded. It seems that Hong Kong was not really recognized for much of anything until the early 1800’s when it was realized to be an acceptable base to process trade through China. It is interesting, and somewhat terrible, to see the amount of conflict in such a short time period. Starting with the First Opium War in 1839, the Chinese suffered through several wars, unfair treaties, piracy, and British tyranny, ending with Hong Kong becoming a center

Frederick Mwangi History of Hong Kong Chim Lim HIS 385 H1 The 1967 Riots & MacLehose Reforms The uniqueness of Hong Kong in terms of geographical, social and political structure is fascinating to study. Ceded to the greatest imperial power of the 19th century, Britain, the transition of a mostly uninhabited barren island to a financial powerhouse with over 7 million inhabitants provides interesting insight into a city built on entrepot trade, laissez-fair capitalism and modern economic social programs

The State Council of the Peoples Republic of China violates the Hong Kong Basic Law by purposefully creating a pro-Beijing majority in the Hong Kong Election Committee and thus denies citizens participation in the election of their Chief Executive. This social injustice forms part of a larger social justice struggle whereby the autonomy of Hong Kong is slowly being eroded by Central Government control. Hong Kong citizens have long been discontent with the Chinese Central Government over concerns

Tokyo and Hong Kong－－Counterparts or Enemies? In the light of proximity, Hong Kong and Japan are compared regarding different aspects. But when it comes to the deciding hour, who will overpower their combatant? According to Balmforth (2012) “There is no single answer of one city better than another because each city has its own special qualities and its own potentials”. Indeed, both cities are well-known as travel destinations, Japan was elected the second-best destination in Asia (Lonely Planet

umbrella revolution didn’t have any significant impact to the political system and relationship between Hong Kong and China? This essay will focus on what are the similarities and differences between Umbrella revolution and the Tiananmen incident in June, 4, 1989. Chinese government have promised the One Country, Two System Law at the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 in return for the Hong Kong’s sovereignty in 1997, which was an official colony of the British government after the Opium War

bilingualism is the ability to use two languages. As we all know, Hong Kong, a modern city of the world, is a well-known bilingual city based on historical, economic, political and social factors. And in our daily lives, it seems really common to see people have bilingual communication under different circumstances, which is also known as the bilingual phenomenon. 2. Key words: Bilingualism, Bilingual Communication, Bilingual Phenomena, Hong Kong,

Affairs And the Moving Identity of Hong Kong In the book “Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, motherland and self”, the author Yingchi Chu describes Hong Kong as “[a] ‘nation’ without sovereignty” (98). It is because of the unique and complicating historical experience that Hong Kong people have been going through since its early beginning. From the early time until before 1842, Hong Kong was considered to be a territory of China. In 1842, China officially ceded Hong Kong to the British after the First Opium