Hong Kong's Identity from Pre-Colonial Times

By Ben Caplin
  • Precolonial Time

    Precolonial Time

    Hong Kong is a fishing village.
  • Opium War

    Opium War

    The opium war started in 1839 and ended in 1842 w the treaty of Nanjing which meant that the British took control of HK until 1997 with the handover.
  • 2nd opium war

    2nd opium war

    Second Opium war (Convention of Peking) Added the Kowloon peninsula to HK island. These treaties were followed by a 99-year lease in 1898 that allowed Britain to take even more land the lease that ran out in 1997.
  • Frist Sino Japanese war

    Frist Sino Japanese war

    First Sino - Japanese war (Convention of the extension of Hong Kong Territories) After more than six months of unbroken successes by Japanese land and naval forces and the loss of the port of Weihaiwei , the Qing government sued for peace in February 1895.
  • WW2 (Japanese occupation)

    WW2 (Japanese occupation)

    World War 2 - Japan Occupation of HK english was banned, Japanese was taught in school
    Imperial Japan controlled HK and installed a puppet government
    HK Currency changed to Military Yen CulturalEconomicGovernment
  • Shek Kip Mei Fire

    Shek Kip Mei Fire

    Shek Kip Mei Fire changed HK identity because a squatter camp was burnt down forcing the government to make high-rises.
  • Handover to China

    Handover to China

    Hong Kong was officially handed over to China in July 1st 1997 after 156 years of British colonial rule. GovernmentPopulation