![]() ![]() Located around a spectacular deep-sea harbor, Hong Kong has served as a convenient outpost for the empowered British Empire after the Napoleonic Wars as well as an entrepôt for the “newly unemployed, adventurous young men, ready to explore the seven seas.” While the majority of Hong Kongers were then and still are ethnically Chinese, England is keenly interested in what has attracted others to the city and the kinds of industry and family dynasties they created over the decades. “Hong Kong was precisely the handy kind of small but clever place always needed on the edge of huge empires-hideaway and refuge, petri dish or sewer, and always a service stop providing fuel of all kinds for next ventures,” writes England, who has been a journalist in East Asia for years. A new history of Hong Kong, emphasizing the early traders and strivers of mixed ethnic backgrounds who shaped its singular development. ![]()
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