HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Shang Dynasty, Lei Cheng Uk, Cheung Chau
Document Summary
Hong kong island: 2nd largest island, largest is lantau island, 81 km2, 7% of the territory, 1841 losing against uk. Kowloon peninsula: 47 km2, 1860 losing against uk. Signed treaties, as far as uk concern. The long duration to last for 99 years 1997 back to china (only new territories) New territories: 748km2, outlying islands: 228km2, 1898. All the way down to the border to the china and also other part of hk"s island. Developing parts of the place in the nt, hk cant survive without nt: when uk into the nt, villages have an exception. They create the law to allow villages to control the land. The native villages to contact homes that would not be allow in the kowloon and hong kong. The policy in hk in the 19th century. The native have rights to develop and keep the land to the pass generations.
