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Public Worlds : Hong Kong : Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. 香港殖民地时期受英国的影响_百度知道. 首先肯定是香港的经济的发达的影响 1947 年 始 , 港 英 政 府 取 消 了 对 物 价 , 出 口 贸 易 的 管 制 , 於 是 从 该 年 始 , 香 港 恢 复 其 自 由 港 的 地 位 ; 加 上 在 八 年 抗 战 结 束 后 , 内 地 外 贸 急 需 发 展 , 这 对 促 进 香 港 转 口 贸 易 的 恢 复 及 发 展 起 了 很 大 的 作 用 。

香港殖民地时期受英国的影响_百度知道

1949 年 新 中 国 成 立 , 其 经 济 建 设 急 需 大 量 物 资 , 此 进 一 步 推 动 了 中 国 内 地 从 香 港 转 口 贸 易 的 发 展 。 与 此 同 时 , 香 港 同 美 国 、 加 拿 大 、 西 欧 和 东 南 亚 的 贸 易 也 有 所 增 长 。 与 之 相 应 的 是 , 香 港 的 航 运 业 也 迅 速 恢 复 和 发 展 起 来 。 1950 年 , 朝 鲜 战 争 爆 发 , 美 国 於 同 年 下 令 联 合 国 对 新 中 国 施 行 「 禁 运 」 军 需 物 品 输 入 中 国 的 政 策 。 香 港 作 为 英 国 属 地 因 而 不 得 不 执 行 「 禁 运 」 , 於 是 香 港 作 为 中 国 贸 易 转 口 港 便 深 受 影 向 , 香 港 的 转 口 航 运 业 亦 深 受 到 一 定 打 击 , 唯 有 艰 难 地 进 行 。 Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking), 1842. A Culture of Emigration. The numbers tell part of the story of the brain drain.

A Culture of Emigration

In the early 1980s, according to Donald Tsang, the Hong Kong government's point man on the emigration issue, about 20,000 people a year left the territory; in 1987 the number rose to 30,000, and in 1988 and 1989 to more than 40,000. The estimate for 1990 is that 62,000 people emigrated. For the rest of the decade the numbers will probably be even higher, swelled by people who decided after the Beijing massacre, in June of 1989, that Deng Xiaoping's word was not assurance enough to bet their lives on.

In gross terms, the problem is bad enough: 62,000 people is more than one percent of Hong Kong's population. But it is the kind of people who are leaving that has made emigration a critical issue. Although not everyone who says he will leave will do so, the idea of emigration is pervasive. Report on Hong Kong, November, 1967. China itself has made no overt move toward the colony -- in fact, on at least a dozen occasions Chinese Army troops have actually held back mobs of mainland Chinese hopped up on Maoist brew.

Report on Hong Kong, November, 1967

But months of agitation, which has slowly escalated from labor strikes to militant demonstrations to violent riots and armed terrorist attacks, have clearly signaled the beginning of a Maoist "people's war" against the British in their own colony. The British fight with more than 12,000 police and 10,000 soldiers to preserve both the political status quo and extraordinary economic prosperity through a campaign maintaining law and order. Sortieing out from their liberated areas -- Communist storefronts, union halls, and newspaper offices, fortified with food and water and iron grills on the doors -- the Communists retaliate with propaganda, rumors, terror, labor strikes, and economic reprisals directed both against the British and against the great mass of non-Communist Chinese. Edge of Empires : Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. Page 3597 London Gazette. Chinese Diplomacy and the Treaty of Nanking, 1842 on JSTOR.

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First Opium War - Wikipedia

European silver flowed into China when the Canton System, instituted in the mid-18th century, confined the sea trade to Canton and to the Chinese merchants of the Thirteen Factories. The British East India Company had a matching monopoly of British trade. Background: European trade with Asia[edit] Opium ships at Lintin, China, 1824 Napier Affair[edit] Destruction of opium at Humen[edit] War[edit] Google Docs - Reserch. British Imperialism in China. By Tao He The primary motive of British imperialism in China in the nineteenth century was economic.

British Imperialism in China

There was a high demand for Chinese tea, silk and porcelain in the British market. However, Britain did not possess sufficient silver to trade with the Qing Empire.