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73 dager som backpacker i Asia :)
På lørdag ankom jeg Hong Kong, hvor jeg møtte klassen. Jeg landet en time etter klassen, men de ventet.. Så var det arrangert en busstur inn til stedet vi bor på. Det heter Tao Fong Shan og er i utkanten av Hong Kong "downtown".
På søndag dro vi ned til byen å så litt. Trodde ikke det skulle være så mye liv, men det var helt vilt. Virket nesten som at søndag var shopping dag i Hong Kong - men det viser seg å være sånn hver dag :)
I dag, mandag, begynte vi med forelesning. Har også besøkt et tempel og et kloster som var veldig spesielle. Kommer noen filmer derfra etterhvert.
Imorgen skal vi på ekskursjon, til Macau. En liten øy rett utenfor Hong Kong. Det blir spennende.
Det har vært ganske hektisk.. Men gøy alikevel :)
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Nhatanh None of these answers so far has it quite right.Hong Kong Island istelf was ceded to the British after the First Opium War, in 1842 (the U.K. had occupied the island since 1841). Kowloon was ceded to the British after the Second Opium War, in 1860. The British were given a 99-year lease to the New Territories in 1898.Obviously, modern China was not interested in renewing the lease to the British. The Brits, in turn, realized that Hong Kong Island and Kowloon was not viable as a self-sustaining territory on its own, especially with a large, powerful neighbor that considered Hong Kong stolen land. So negotiations began to return the whole territory to China but in a way that would be as acceptable as possible to the governments and population.That's how the deal came about to make Hong Kong a special administrative region, a part of China but with many of Hong Kong's institutions remaining in place, including currency, freedoms, English as an official language, etc. These are guaranteed for 50 years after the handover. In other words, 37 years to go.China negotiated a similar deal with Portugal to get back Macau, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1999. China has offered Taiwan status as a special administrative region to come under Beijing's autonomy, but not surprisingly, the renegade province has declined.
Dinka No. The British did not own Hong Kong. They leased it from China for 99 years. Hong Kong was then nuetrred to the Chinese, although it still has a special status and maintains it's own currency (HK$). It has a certain amount of autonomy from China, and still has a separate Stock Exchange (Hang Seng Index).If you have a single entry visa to China,you cannot visit Hong Kong and then re-enter China.The status of Hong Kong is very confusing.