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  1. Aug 7, 2019 · British Hong Kong’s trajectory was different from that of mainland China, which became a Communist country in 1949. Up to 100,000 Chinese found refuge in Hong Kong after the Communist Party took ...

  2. Jul 1, 2022 · Hong Kong will commemorate the 25th anniversary of its handover from Britain to China on 1 July. Every year, on 1 July, Hong Kong marks the day where it was returned from British to Chinese ...

  3. Jul 1, 2022 · In 1997 Hong Kong was handed back to China, triggering the start of a grand political experiment. Many were anxious about how the capitalist, free-wheeling former British colony would fare under ...

  4. In 1997, Hong Kong stopped being a British colony after more than 150 years of British rule. Authority over Hong Kong was transferred to China. Many see this moment as the end of the last significant colony in the British Empire. Hong Kong became a British colony through two wars: the First and Second Opium […]

  5. Sep 3, 2019 · Hong Kong first came under Chinese rule during the Qin Dynasty in the third century B.C., and it remained a part of the Chinese Empire for about 2,000 years. But between 1842 and 1898, the British ...

  6. After 140 years of British rule, which transformed it into a world city of 6 million, Hong Kong embarked upon a fundamental transformation as the 1984 Sino-British agreement mandated the end of British colonialism and the sovereignty retrocession to the People's Republic of China on 1 July 1997. The China factor has ushered in the related ...

  7. Hong Kong - Culture, Cuisine, Heritage: Hong Kong’s is truly a mixed culture. Not only does the territory celebrate festivals and holidays of the East and the West, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Lunar (Chinese) New Year, Christmas, the Western New Year, and others, but it also enjoys hundreds of annual cultural events ranging from traditional Cantonese and other Chinese regional operas and puppet shows to performances of ballet, theatre, and music and ...