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	History of Hong Kong
		The United Kingdom, concerned that Hong Kong could not be defended unless surrounding areas also were under British control, executed a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898, significantly expanding the size of the Hong Kong colony.
		Hong Kong became an economic success and a manufacturing, commercial, finance, and tourism center.
		Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China with a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs.
	www.historyofnations.net /asia/hongkong.html (468 words)

	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.
		The economic development of Hong Kong is unusual in a variety of respects. First, industrialization was accompanied by increasing numbers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) rather than consolidation. In 1955, 91 percent of manufacturing establishments employed fewer than one hundred workers, a proportion that increased to 96.5 percent by 1975.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/schenk.HongKong (824 words)

	Hong Kong - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hong Kong is a free port, a bustling trade center, and a shipping and banking emporium—one of the greatest trading and transshipment centers in East Asia.
		Hong Kong has shipping connections with all major world ports and is an international air hub; the airport at Kai Tak (opened 1958) was built on land reclaimed from Kowloon Bay.
		Hong Kong was affected by the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, but its economy began to rebound in 1999.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hongkong.html (1727 words)

	History of Hong Kong: StayresHongKong.com
		Hong Kong is situated on the southeastern coast of China and spreads out about 1,100 square kilometers, including more than 260 Outlying Islands.
		Hong Kong Island lies south of Kowloon, separated by Victoria Harbor, and the New Territories lie north of Kowloon and run up to the boundary with Mainland China.
		Kowloon represents the essence of Hong Kong with its constant buzz of activity.
	www.stayreshongkong.com /about-hongkong.htm (397 words)

	Hong Kong Growing as Part of China - Y. C. Richard Wong - East Asia Speeches - the Asia Society
		Hong Kong's relationship with the Chinese mainland is fundamental in defining the shape and scope of economic and social affairs in the territory.
		The British opium traders in particular used Hong Kong waters for moorings, and relied on the migrant Hakkas to be the purveyors, commissariat and transport coolies of the foreigners and the Tankas, who were the local fishing population, to provide boatmen and pilots for the foreign trade.
		The fact that Hong Kong was totally unprepared and the responses to them took the shape of a series of ad hoc measures that had path dependent consequences were primarily responsible for this state of affairs.
	www.asiasociety.org /speeches/wong.html (4323 words)

	History of Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		Hong Kong has historically served as a refuge for exiles beginning with the Taiping rebellion in 1850, when many felt the unsettled conditions on the mainland.
		During the teens and twenties of this century, Hong Kong served as a refuge for exiles from China following the establishment of the Chinese Republic in 1912.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~cngai/history.htm (426 words)

	Hong Kong : In Depth : History \| Frommers.com
		Hong Kong's growth in the 20th century was no less astonishing in terms of both trade and population.
		As a British colony, Hong Kong was administered by a governor appointed by the queen.
		Hong Kong's pro-democracy leaders responded that Hong Kong's autonomy had been violated, with the core principals of the Basic Law and the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration -- that Hong Kong would be ruled by the people of Hong Kong -- replaced by a Beijing dictatorship.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/hongkong/0078020044.html (2170 words)

	History of Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hong Kong's history during Three Kingdoms Southern and Northern Dynasties is less known owing to the of records and archaeological findings.
		Subsequently Hong Kong was ceded to Britain 1842 under the Treaty of Nanking at which point in time the became a Crown Colony.
		The development of Hong Kong was disturbed the Japanese rule during World War II The British Canadians Indians and the Hong Volunteer Defense Forces resisited the Japanese invasion by Sakai Takashi since December 8 1941 the day after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
	www.freeglossary.com /History_of_Hong_Kong (2758 words)

	Hong Kong History - Culture and background country
		The Europeans were interested in Hong Kong's safe harbor located on the trade routes of the Far East, thus establishing a trade enterprise between Western businessmen and China.
		As a result of the war and the Chinese' fear of British military threats, Hong Kong was rewarded to the British under the Convention of Chuen Pi in January 1841.
		With that, Hong Kong carried on to progress as a port and under British influences, it became one of the greatest port cities the world has ever seen.
	www.yourrooms.com /hongkong_hotels/history.htm (1055 words)

	History
		The Hong Kong Chinese always reckoned this British Crown Colony to be a "three-legged stool," with one leg in Beijing, another in London, and the third in Hong Kong.
		Hong Kong's first skyjacking took place on July 16 as a Macau Airways catalina flying boat en route to Macau from the colony is taken.
		The Hong Kong government stages first Festival of Hong Kong to thank "residents" who have tolerated the past few year of the cultural revolution across the border with nervous patience, aware of the potential danger to the colony.
	www.regit.com /regitour/hongkong/about/history.htm (2391 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong: Books: Frank Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this deeply researched but sterile history of the British crown colony, Welsh describes how Hong Kong became a trading and commercial center after its inception during the 1839-1842 Opium War and gives a straightforward account of the British entrepreneurs and their accumulation of wealth.
		Hong Kong has been a source of embarrassment to both Britain and China from the outset.
		The events of 1972--when Hong Kong's future was decided by Britain and China--are still shrouded in a secrecy that Welsh doesn't dispel, stating only that some feel that if Britain hadn't approached China, China would have let matters lie because Hong Kong was too valuable a trading partner to lose.
	www.amazon.ca /Borrowed-Place-History-Hong-Kong/dp/1568361343 (1202 words)

	Hong Kong - History and Background \| Footprint Guides
		Set in Hong Kong in 1963, the action spans a little over a week and is packed with high adventure from kidnapping, murder, financial double-dealing, fires, floods and landslides.
		The hero, Tom Stewart, from England travels to Hong Kong in 1935 as it embarks on its prosperous years, and on his voyage out he is made the object of a bizarre bet between a Chinese nun and an anti-Catholic English businessman.
		This heavy tome is a historical account of the Japanese occupation from the viewpoint of the Hong Kong Chinese, the British, Japanese and Mainland Chinese.
	www.footprintguides.com /Hong-Kong/History-and-Background.php (955 words)

	Hong Kong History
		Hong Kong shows up on the stage of history -- either Chinese history or British history or whatever -- virtually since late nineteenth century.
		Anyway, according to Endacott, "its real history begins with the trading relations between China and the West, which had been centred mainly at Canton since the end of seventeenth century (Endacott 1973:2)." People inhabited in the land now called Hong Kong before then, but it consisted of small fishing villages with small population.
		According to general interpretation, Hong Kong will be unchanged in terms of economic and social systems and way of life for at least 50 years from the date of the return althgouth some people doubt that interpretation.
	www.csulb.edu /~jwinter2/chin490/f2000/akira/history.html (1066 words)

	History of Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		Although the Chinese could have re-taken Hong Kong with ease, China was as reliant on Hong Kong as Hong Kong was on China.
		Hong Kong has suffered fallout from Asia's economic crises in the late 1990s, and has experienced rising unemployment, falling property prices and close to zero growth.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /asia/hongkong/about_destin/history.html (691 words)

	Hong Kong: A Brief History
		As a part of this bending, Hong Kong is given to England "in perpetuity." The British celebrate by exploiting cheap labor in Amoy, Ningpo, Foochow and Shanghai.
		October 23, a law is established for repatriation of illegal immigrants seeking refuge in Hong Kong.
		July 1st, 1997 A. -Hong Kong is "handed-over" to Mainland China, officially ending its status of being a "Crown Colony," and installing it's status as a "Special Administrative Region" of China.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /durer/661/history.htm (1266 words)

	HONG KONG'S HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hong Kong served as a refuge for exiles from China following the establishment of the Chinese Republic in 1912.
		Conclusions on Hong Kong's History Hong Kong has had a colorful past from pirates to Trader Barons and yet it is the future that looks to be the most interesting.
		All of this remains to be seen as Hong Kong approaches the 1997 deadline.
	www.csudh.edu /global_options/375Students-Sp96/HongKong/BriefHist.html (435 words)

	History of The Hong Kong Cup
		The Hong Kong International Cup was again re-named in 1999 to the Hong Kong Cup, and became the first horse race in Hong Kong to be awarded with a full International Group 1 status.
		The Hong Kong Cup also became the final leg of the World series Racing Championship, and the race's distance was incresed from 188m to 2000m.
		In 2004 the race was re-named as the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Cup after a three-year partnership was announced with the title sponsor, Cathay Pacific.
	www.hongkong-cup.com /history.htm (337 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: A Child Learns History in Hong Kong
		Learning history consisted of memorizing the historical facts: names, dates, figures, etc. There was little discussion or interpretation going on in class, as the teachers were only interested in making sure we memorized the facts.
		We were not asked to think about the meaning of history; we were only asked to remember who killed whom to steal the imperial throne, who brought in the Buddhists and slaughtered the Taoists, who killed dissenting intellectuals, which alliance defeated which other alliance, and so on.
		Hong Kong is an island with fewer than 3 million inhabitants at the time.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20050418_1.htm (1198 words)

	DiscoverHongKong - Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Scratch the surface of Hong Kong's rich culture and heritage and you'll be amazed at the diversity.
		Hong Kong is a unique fusion of Eastern and Western cultures where the old and the new live side by side.
		Museums: Whether you want to visit the earliest days of Hong Kong or explore the frontiers of science, Hong Kong’s museums offer great exhibits with fun for the whole family.
	www.discoverhongkong.com /eng/heritage/index.jhtml (166 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Hong Kong
		Expansion of the Hong Kong Jewish community was temporarily halted during the WWII Japanese occupation, which began in December 1941 and lasted to the end of the war.
		Hong Kong's development as a prosperous business center has attracted thousands of foreigners, including many Jewish families from the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
		The Hong Kong Jewish community experienced rapid growth in the last decade and the population now numbers between three and four thousand.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/hongkong.html (643 words)

	Hong Kong History - Hong Kong China \| History of Hong Kong City
		In prehistoric periods,the shoreline of Hong Kong was inhabited.
		The first westerner to visit Hong Kong was Jorge Alvares, a Portuguese mariner, and he began trading with the Chinese.
		In 1984, 13 years before handing Hong Kong back to China, the British and the People's Republic of China signed a Sino-British Joint Declaration, where the Chinese government promised Hong Kong would maintain its capitalistic system and life style under the "One country, Two System" policy proposed by Deng XiaoPing.
	www.travelchinatour.com /hong-kong-china/hong-kong-history.htm (493 words)

	Hong Kong Study Circle: Related Links
		Hong Kong Philatelic Society is based in Hong Kong itself and has frequent meetings and publishes an excellent monthly Newsletter as well as an annual Journal.
		Hong Kong Post Stamps maintains a web site dedicated to the current postal affairs of Hong Kong SAR and lists the Hong Kong stamp issuing programme for the year.
		Postal History Society of China (PHSoCh) is a newly-formed organization dedicated to the postal history of China in its entirety, but recent issues of the quarterly Journal have covered aspects of the postal history of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports, as well as IPO markings, in comprehensive detail.
	www.hongkongstudycircle.com /links.html (721 words)

	Hong Kong History
		Hong Kong’s Victoria Park is the only place on Chinese soil where candles are lit every year in memory of the hundreds that were killed that night.
		In case you were planning to swim to Hong Kong instead of arriving by other means, you will be happy to know that the beaches of Hong Kong have improved to where you can actually swim in the water.
		Yesterday, July 1, was the 9th anniversary of the British hand-over of Hong Kong to the Chinese government.
	www.hongkonglogue.com /guides/hong-kong-history (475 words)

	History of Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hong Kong was a refuge for exiles from China, following the establishment of the Chinese Republic in 1912.
		That brought Hong Kong's population to about 1.6 million people at the start of World War II.
		Since the Chinese Nationalist Government faced its defeat in a civil war at the hands of the communists in 1949, Hong Kong's population has continued to rise and nowadays this small territory is home to about 6.5 million people.
	library.thinkquest.org /18802/hkhist.htm (299 words)

	History of Hong Kong
		To imagine modern Hong Kong's humble beginnings as that of a fishing village is astounding.
		It also stated that Hong Kong will basically remain as it is currently known for an additional 50 years after the turnover.
		Fear of Hong Kong reverting back to Communist China's rule, caused some people to emigrate to other countries, but many have returned with another country's citizenship in hand as a safeguard.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/hong-kong/hk_history.htm (324 words)

	Hong Kong Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Hong Kong has the big city specials like smog, odour, 14 million elbows and an insane love of clatter.
		The best thing about being in Hong Kong is getting flummoxed and fired by the confluences and contradictions of a Chinese city with multi-Asian and Western elements.
		The Hong Kong film industry is the world's third largest, after Hollywood and Bollywood (do we want 'Hong Kollywood'?).
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/china/hong-kong (314 words)

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