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Hong Kong History

Freedom Works: The Case of Hong Kong

Source: Morriss, Andrew PView Profile. Freeman58.9 (Nov 2008): 8-12. Hong Kong has a remarkable reputation for financial independence and classical-liberal virtues. In a series of posts, Milton Fried- man used Hong Kong showing the way the power of free markets ...

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Hong Kong History

Hong Kong was part of the empire before as a direct consequence of the 19th – century coming under British administration Opium Wars. The conflict arose from Chinese resistance to allowing their ports to trade in opium produced in British ...

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Hong Kong History (1950-1990)

50s in Hong Kong Skills and capital brought by refugees of Mainland China, notably from Shanghai, together with a huge pool of inexpensive labour helped revive the market. Enjoying unprecedented increase, Hong Kong would transform from a territory of entrepot ...

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HISTORY OF HONG KONG

During Hong Kong’s first century of existence, a society of sojourners—Chinese migrants and British and other expatriates—was formed under British colonial institutions. It functioned as a point of exchange between China and the outside world, for merchandise, people and ideas. ...

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