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Topic: 1960s in Hong Kong

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Economic History of Hong Kong
		Hong Kong’s economic and political history has been primarily determined by its geographical location. The territory of Hong Kong is comprised of two main islands (Hong Kong Island and Lantau Island) and a mainland hinterland.
		Hong Kong was profoundly affected by the disastrous events in Mainland China in the inter-war period.
		Even during the period of self-sufficiency in the 1960s, Hong Kong’s imports of food and water from the PRC were a vital source of foreign exchange revenue that ensured Hong Kong’s usefulness to the mainland.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/schenk.HongKong (824 words)

	1960s in Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hong Kong's development in the 1960s are most notably at industries.
		Hong Kong's development was recognized as it was one of Asia's Four Little Dragons (亞洲四小龍), with Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.
		In 1960, Typhoon Mary affected Hong Kong, causing 45 deaths and 127 injuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960s_in_Hong_Kong (494 words)

	Hong Kong 1967 riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The political climate was tense in Hong Kong in the spring of 1967.
		The Hong Kong Police Force was recognized for its valor and loyalty during the events by the British government.
		This title was to remain in use until the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hong_Kong_1967_riots (1337 words)

	Hong Kong Islands
		Lamma Island's close proximity to Hong Kong makes it possible to enjoy a convenient ferry ride over for a night of banqueting – there are many affordable restaurants and eateries serving excellent Chinese and Western fare.
		For further adventure and insight into the Hong Kong of old, go sightseeing in Tai O – nicknamed the “Venice of Hong Kong” – a small fishing village on the west coast of Lantau.
		This exquisite vantage point provides a perfect panorama of Hong Kong, including the world's longest span suspension bridge for vehicles and trains: Tsing Ma Bridge, which connects the islands of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan.
	www.hong-kong-hotels.ws /attractions/islands.htm (808 words)

	Asia Times
		Hong Kong's low-tax myth is merely a cover-up for the exorbitant land tax disguised by the government's century-old, unseemly role as chief land speculator.
		Hong Kong was one of its operating bases due to the fact that British authorities were not proficient enough in the Chinese language to detect and suppress Chinese revolutionary activities under their noses.
		Hong Kong's fortunes rose in the 1850s and '60s as refugees flooded the colony, fleeing from the social chaos in China associated with the economic dislocation from the resultant drain of silver from widespread opium addiction and periodic foreign invasion and ruinous war reparations.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/EE14Ad01.html (8818 words)

	Hong Kong pegged to a failed policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hong Kong residents generally, like other rational market participants, are unwilling to hold a substantial portion of their cash or other liquid assets in Hong Kong dollars as long as uncertainty regarding the sustainability of the peg remains.
		Hong Kong was built on colonial monopolistic capitalism, a game in which the British colonial government enjoyed full autocratic power to decide winners and losers by the granting of royal monopolistic charters.
		Hong Kong has never had a tradition of Jeffersonian democracy in which government should ideally be controlled by the people with limited power promoting economic policies aimed at protecting the welfare of the average citizen rather than the wealthy.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/769770/posts (8630 words)

	Hong Kong's History. »´ä¾ú¥v¡C
		Prior to the arrival of the British, Hong Kong was a small fishing community and a haven for travellers and pirates in the South China Sea.
		Settlement in the territory grew slowly with the population rose from 32,983 in 1851 to 878,947 in 1931.
		Hong Kong's economic life began to slow after the United Nations' embargo on trade with China in the 1950s.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Towers/2464/hist.htm (825 words)

	Hong Kong's Struggle for Selfhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hong Kong was treated as primarily a place of rest and recreation for their missionaries.
		Although Hong Kong is not likely to have a fully elected government in the foreseeable future (meaning its citizens are able to elect their own chief executive and all 60 legislators by universal franchise), a more open and accountable government must be pursued.
		Seminaries in Hong Kong have an awesome task ahead as Christians in Hong Kong in general are extremely poorly educated theologically and their pastors are inadequately equipped.
	daga.dhs.org /daga/press/1997b/ch09.htm (3129 words)

	CNN.com - 1960s -1970s: Revolution - June 24, 2002
		The rapid development was punctuated by the sound of construction, as the colony built housing, reservoirs, tunnels and highways at a breathtaking pace.
		By mid-decade, the growing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War made Hong Kong a major stop for American troops seeking "rest and recreation." It was also the West's observation post into China, which was turning its back on much of the world.
		The disturbances were followed by several major social reforms in Hong Kong -- including the cleanup of the colony's scandal-ridden police force.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/20/hk.history.05 (381 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Hong Kong during the 1960s
		Hong Kong had its share of communists in schools, trade unions, news agencies and the like, and the mania that was raging in China began to rub off on them.
		The troubles in Hong Kong gradually subsided as firm control was re-established in mainland China.
		In the 1950s and 1960s nearly all Hong Kong people were poor but we were also very happy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/6692471.stm (779 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| Broken Dreams \| 11/02/2001
		"Hong Kong faces an accelerated economic downturn, a rise in unemployment, an increase in the fiscal deficit and a delayed recovery." The numbers bear him out: GDP growth will shrink to about 1% this year; unemployment, at a 17-month high, is 5.3%.
		The Hong Kong real-estate bubble was based at least partly on the ability of local firms to charge a premium for services to outsiders looking to strike it rich on the mainland.
		The optimist's view of Hong Kong's current predicament is that the city is in the midst of its third post-World War II transition.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/enterprise/0,8782,181174,00.html (2752 words)

	Management--Planning for self-financing at the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong
		Hong Kong has been a British Crown Colony for the past 140 years, and it will remain so until June 1997, when its sovereignty will be passed back to the People's Republic of China (PRC).
		Hong Kong is now ageing, but slowly and from a heavily skewed demographic structure.
		Hong Kong's concern over the lack of adequate provision for tertiary education is a recurring theme that has been expressed by community and educational leaders as long ago as the mid- 1970s.
	www1.worldbank.org /disted/Management/Operations/bud-03.html (3501 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: China Special Report
		HONG KONG—With her English law degree, clipped British accent, successful career as a commodities trader, well-groomed Shih Tzu and tendency to call herself "earthling," Christine Loh stands for everything that is outward-looking, modern, hip and fast-paced about Hong Kong.
		In the 1960s, as a student in Hong Kong, he became enamored of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.
		Observers in Hong Kong said Tsang is different from many of the current crop of pro-Chinese legislators who once backed Britain but switched sides to curry favor with Beijing.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/china/stories/future070198.htm (1274 words)

	Sheena, Queen of the Jungle: White Goddess of the Dumont Era
		As such, for Hong Kong’s younger generation, the past consists of stories told and retold by parents and relatives, rehearsed in documentary films, stylized on cinema and television screens; it is rarely discussed with passion, barely mentioned in classrooms.
		Hong Kong is by definition a city and urban living characterizes the everyday lives of nearly the whole of its population, standing at 6.7 million in 1999.
		Hong Kong comics are dominated by “triad” related themes, most of which tend to contain ample violence, sex and foul language in their contents.In contrast, Japanese comics are much more varied, including both girls’ comics (shojo manga), boys’ comics (shonen manga) as well as those for young men (seinenshi).
	pcasacas.org /SPC/spcissues/23.1/hau-nungchan.htm (1507 words)

	JS Online: Hong Kong economy struggling with change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hong Kong - When Great Britain ended more than 150 years of colonial rule in 1997 by ceding this outpost of 19th century imperialism back to China, the 7 million residents of Hong Kong thought they were facing the biggest economic hurdle in their colorful history.
		Since 1997, Hong Kong has been a special administrative region of China, with Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa and a massive bureaucracy inherited from the British in charge of almost all governmental functions, except defense and foreign affairs.
		Hong Kong boasts a vibrant international stock exchange, while that in Shanghai is used mostly by individual Chinese to speculate in the shares of mainland companies.
	www.jsonline.com /bym/your/mar02/29542.asp?format=print (979 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		By the end of October 1983, Hong Kong had ended its brief experiment with floating exchange rates and announced that it was pegging its currency to the dollar at a rate of 7.8 to $1 with a discretionary currency board regime.
		The Hong Kong peg produced a sharply undervalued Hong Kong currency that in turn gave birth to a bubble economy that burst 12 years later in 1997 as part of the Asian financial crisis.
		The buying and selling rates of the yuan against the Hong Kong dollar and the Japanese yen might not deviate more than 1% on either side of the reference rate; and in the case of other currencies, the deviations should not exceed 0.5% on either side of their respective reference rates.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FJ23Ad06.html (9774 words)

	CNN - Hong Kong: Past
		By the start of the 1960s, Hong Kong had developed into a major manufacturing center with a booming economy.
		The colony's manufacturing industries were, for the most part, unregulated, and much of the colony's labor force had to work long hours under poor conditions.
		In 1967, a labor dispute at an artificial flower factory in Hong Kong quickly escalated into widespread street violence.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9706/hk97/past/revolution (391 words)

	Interlibrary lending activities in Hong Kong - an overview - 65th IFLA Council and General Conference - Conference ...
		It is the aim of this paper to review the evolution of ILL activities in Hong Kong and, at the same time, to answer some of the questions that outsiders may find interesting by using the City University of Hong Kong as an example.
		In Hong Kong, ILL services are usually provided to academic and research staff as well as postgraduate students only since it is believed that the needs of undergraduates should be met by each institute's own library collections.
		The 8 universities and colleges are: City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Lingnan College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong.
	www.ifla.org /IV/ifla65/papers/121-128e.htm (1997 words)

	Hong Kong Travel Guide \| LukeTravels.com
		The MTR was immediately popular with the residents of Hong Kong, and as a result subsequent lines have been built to cover more territory.
		Hong Kong's oldest surviving colonial building, built in 1846, this has a core collection of tea ware donated by local collector Dr K.S. Lo, including many pieces of Chinese origin.
		Three-quarters of Hong Kong is countryside and two-fifths of it is preserved as country parkland; there are 23 land and marine parks, some of which have been declared Areas of Special Scientific Interest.
	www.luketravels.com /hong-kong/guide.htm (1251 words)

	Hong Kong in a Nutshell by Asia Travel
		Nearly 70 per cent of Hong Kong's land is countryside and 30 per cent of the territory has been officially conserved country parkland since the 1960s.
		Hong Kong has 21 scenic country parks, whose management are under the direction of the Country Parks Authority.
		Bird Watching: Hong Kong is a stopping point on the migratory routes of many species, as well as the permanent home of many others nearly 430 species have been recorded.
	asiatravel.com /hknut4.html (909 words)

	Chinese literature, Chinese culture, Chinese writers, Renditions paperback series, novels, fiction, poetry
		They make a conscious effort to explore their own identity from a Hong Kong perspective, and to describe Hong Kong's special way of life and the trials and tribulations of a populace caught between two cultures.
		Xi Xi's fascinating rendering of the fusion of East and West, tradition and modernity that is Hong Kong assures her place in the literary annals of this unique society.
		Hong Kong in the 1970s—a time of rapid economic growth, and more significantly, of growth in self-confidence and the forging of a local identity.
	www.renditions.org /renditions/paperbacks (2991 words)

	Hong Kong Hotels \| The History of Hong Kong, China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hong Kong's existence was threatened again when the Communists came to power in China in 1949 and during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.
		China's official policy with regard to Hong Kong is 'one country, two systems', and the common view is that as long as Hong Kong continues to make money (and little noise) its autonomy is assured.
		But a number of crucial interventions by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong's affairs have made it evident that there is not quite as much autonomy going on as the slogan suggests.
	www.hongkonghotels.dealsonhotels.com /local-history (746 words)

	The McDonaldization of Hong Kong - Global Policy Forum - Globalization
		Hong Kong is arguably the food capital of the world, with more than 10,000 restaurants with cuisine from Brazil, Nepal, Russia, and Egypt to choose from, not to mention the mouthwatering variety of Chinese dishes.
		"Hong Kong's McDonalds gradually made the transition from a trendy exotic outpost of American culture to an ordinary purveyor of ordinary food for ordinary people," says James L. Watson - Professor of Chinese Society and Anthropology at Harvard University in the USA.
		Within the past few years, Greenpeace Hong Kong has challenged the corporation over its use of genetically modified ingredients and a pressure group called the Christian Industrial Council has accused it of abusing workers rights.
	www.globalpolicy.org /globaliz/cultural/2002/0318hongkong.htm (881 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| History of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Film
		Hong Kong’s Mandarin-dominated cinema had traditionally disdained the violence of the wu xia pian (including the Cantonese Wong Fei Hong films) and prided itself on the wen yi pian, or "literary arts films," melodramas or adaptations of novels and plays.
		Hong Kong also experienced violence and social upheaval, and the fights onscreen mirrored those on the city's streets.
		Sek Kei, one of Hong Kong's foremost critics, was born in Macau in 1946.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /31/hk_brief1.html (2534 words)

	Foreign Correspondents' Club Hong Kong - The Correspondent - April-May 2001
		Back in the 1960s when Hong Kong was still a British colony, it was not easy to enter China.
		In those days, Hong Kong was also important to the news gatherers because of the steadily developing guerrilla warfare in South Vietnam.
		Correspondents based in Hong Kong could commute to Vietnam, but whenever there was a lull, return to Hong Kong to catch up on the rest of the Far East.
	www.fcchk.org /correspondent/corro-apr01/apr-prez.htm (692 words)

	East Asian Art & Archaeology - Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pictorial records of the events and lifestyles of the people in Hong Kong, Macau and China in the 18th and 19th centuries were made by artists of both Chinese and Western origins.
		The works give a chronological survey of the development of Hong Kong art from Hong Kong art's early period (the 1950s and before), transformations and evolvement of Hong Kong art (1960s - 1970s) and the diversification and exploration of art and art forms (1980s - 1990s).
		It is the first of its kind in featuring the history of Hong Kong's coastal defense and has opened to the public since July 25, 2000.
	www.umich.edu /~hartspc/NEAAA/issue68/members/exhibitions/articles/asia/68china_7.html (701 words)

	Hong Kong Movie \| Hong Kong Travel Guide
		Hong Kong, as a British colony, had a great degree of political and economic freedom relative to Mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including the worldwide diaspora) and East Asia in general.
		During this period, the Hong Kong industry was one of the few in the world that thrived in the face of the increasing global dominance of Hollywood.
		The Hong Kong Government in April 2003 introduced a Film Guarantee Fund as an incentive to local banks to become involved in the motion picture industry.
	www.china-hongkong-travelguide.com /hong-kong-movie.html (3710 words)

	King's Harmonica Quintet
		The Hong Kong Harmonica Association is pleased to present a winners concert on 21 January 2006 (Saturday) 7:45pm at the Concert Hall of Hong Kong City Hall.
		We are honoured to perform for the first time with Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra on 12 and 13 March 2004 (Friday and Saturday) 8pm at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall.
		We were invited by the Office of the Arts Administrator and Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to perform in the Lee Hysan Concert Hall for the first time on 26 February 2003 (Wednesday) at 7:30pm.
	home.netvigator.com /~cblau/khq (1766 words)

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