Britain won both Opium Wars in convincing fashion, forcing China to bow to its economic demands and cede Hong Kong Island (in 1842) and Kowloon Peninsula (in 1860) for the purposes of creating a ...

When HSBC ,opened its doors in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1865, Chinese trade flows were just bubbling up again after the ...

Shortly before midnight on June 30, 1997, a Chinese national flag replaced the Union Jack in Hong Kong, marking the end of British colonial rule. China celebrated with fireworks. Britain’s ...

Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841, when China ceded the island to the British after the First Opium War - which had erupted over British traders smuggling opium into China. It remained a ...

they spied the granite island that would become Hong Kong on their way up the Pearl River estuary to Guangzhou. Then came the First Opium War in 1839: The Manchu empire ordered a halt to the ...

The result was the “First Opium War,” in which Britain won a resounding ... a series of other impositions, from the loss of ...

The Hong Kong government has suspended its highly controversial plan to allow extraditions to mainland China, Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced. She had previously refused to scrap the bill ...

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares ...

Milka is a Chinese cartoon white dolphin with the iconic brown streak of Hong Kong-style milk tea ... Hongkongers are famous for. From the opium war to the 1997 handover, then the Asian financial ...

Famous for his martial arts prowess and charitable spirit, Wong Fei-hung has been widely respected as a legendary folk hero ...

America is at war — not a hot war like World War II or ... Having lived in Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as Europe, and ...

Hong Kong is a place of contrasts—geographically, socially and economically. Although many Asian cities claim to be where East meets West, the former British Crown colony is probably the closest ...