And don't forget Macau (Portuguese) which I believe is being handed back
next year sometime.

Tony Knowles     [log in to unmask]
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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re[2]: Off Topic: History of Hong Kong
> Date: Tuesday, 1 July 1997 05:35
>
> Eric is correct-
>
> I'd like to add that around the same time that the British leased the New
> Territories other western powers also 'took' lands from China, this
included
> the Germans and the French the Italians also tried but were denied (I do
not
> know when/how the above powers ended their presence in China).
>   The New Territories comprise about 90% of the area of Hong Kong and
> although the British, based on the treaties of the Opium Wars, could have
> 'held on' to the portions acquired at the conclusion of those wars, they
> deemed that it would have been too 'messy' to try and separate the
regions
> and thus opted to return the region as a whole.
>
> Paul
>
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> Subject: Re: Off Topic: History of Hong Kong
> Author:  Eric Bender <[log in to unmask]> at CCGATE
> Date:    06/30/97 01:25 PM
>
>
> At 12:49 PM 6/30/97 -0700, Lee Gunter wrote:
> >As I recall, the British Empire was ceded Hong Kong as a condition of
> >China's surrender following the Opium Wars at the end of the 19th
> >Century.  This concession was somehow turned into a 99-year lease -
> >possibly with the treaty that was signed in 1984 which agreed to the
> >eventual return of Hong Kong to the PRC in 1997.  I'm sorry, but I
> >don't know more of the details.
> >
> >Actually, the (former) Crown Colony of Hong Kong was acquired by the
> British in 3 stages:
> 1) Island of Hong Kong - seized in 1841, during the first Opium War,
> 2) Kowloon - ceded in 1860, after the second Opium War, and
> 3) New Territories, a mainland area leased in 1898 for 99 years.
>
> It was the negotiations concerning the termination of the New Territories
> lease which led to the 1984 agreement cited above to return the entire
> colony to China.
>
> (Incidentally, lost in all the hype over the July 1st and Hong Kong is
that
> July 1st is also Canada Day, in this case the 130th anniversary of our
> Confederation in 1867. So to all my fellow HP3K Canucks - Happy Canada
Day ,
> eh?)
>
>
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