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On the outbreak of World War I in 1914, fear of a possible attack on the colony led to an exodus of 60,000 Chinese. However, Hong Kong during World War I saw no direct military action, and Hong Kong's population continued to boom in the following decades from 530,000 in 1916 to 725,000 in 1925.
Hong Kong, special administrative region (Pinyin: tebie xingzhengqu; Wade-Giles romanization: t’e-pieh hsing-cheng-ch’ü) of China, located to the east of the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) estuary on the south coast of China. The region is bordered by Guangdong province to the north and the South China Sea to the east, south, and west.
Hong Kong profile - Timeline Countdown to handover. Under the "one country, two systems" formula, Hong Kong will become part of one communist-led... One country, two systems. Tung Chee-hwa, a Shanghai-born former shipping tycoon with no political experience, is... Calls for reform. Two Hong Kong ...
The history of Hong Kong, visualized Culture Explainer The history of Hong Kong, visualized The ‘special status’ of this powerful global city is the result of two centuries of growth,...
History of Hong Kong. Discover the history of Hong Kong, from a fishing village in the Chinese empire to a British colony to a major international financial centre and part of China once more.
Constitution. history: several previous (governance documents while under British authority); latest drafted April 1988 to February 1989, approved March 1990, effective 1 July 1997 (Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China serves as the constitution); note - since 1990, China's National People's Congress has interpreted specific articles of the ...
World Hong Kong's 25 years under China: Protests, politics and tightening laws Here are some of the key events since Beijing regained sovereignty over the former British colony, which is...
How Hong Kong Came Under ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Rule China Cedes Hong Kong Island in the First Opium War. The 1841 Convention of Chuenpi between Britain and China ceded Hong... The Chinese Empire transfers the rest of Hong Kong to the British Empire. The map in the Convention of Peking signed ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Louisa Lim, author of Indelible City: Dispossession And Defiance In Hong Kong. They discuss the long history of friction between Hong Kong and China, and the state of ...
Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.
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