Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 3 días · Hong Kong had been a colony of the British Empire since 1841, except for four years of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. After the First Opium War, its territory was expanded in 1860 with the addition of Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island, and in 1898, when Britain obtained a 99-year lease for the New Territories.
Hace 3 días · The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor , forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong around the same time that ...
Hace 15 horas · Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898.
20 de may. de 2024 · Hong Kong does have a rich history of spies, surveillance and repression. Its role as an entrepôt of trade and ideas drew gun-runners, printing-press revolutionaries and shadow bankers from the late Qing dynasty of the 19 th century to the eve of the Second World War and into the era of the China-watchers captured in John Le Carré’s novel ...
23 de may. de 2024 · But as Hong Kong grew and Macanese families prospered, education in the colony became the accepted practice. La Salle College for Boys – Kowloon – 1930’s Within the schools, students whose predominant language was Portuguese were often separated from those who spoke mostly Chinese, and from other children who spoke a mix of Portuguese, English, French, Russian, Filipino or the Macanese ...
23 de may. de 2024 · Another example: The British Crown Colonies of “Hong Kong” ceased to exist in 1997, when the country and its government were handed to People’s Republic of China. So in noting a label that reads “The British Crown Colonies of Hong Kong,” you are looking at a piece that pre-dates at least 1997.
Hace 3 días · Hong Kong is called the "incense or fragrant harbor" in German ... It was called a crown colony until 1997, when the Union Jack, the British flag, was taken down once and for all.
