HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pearl River Delta, Kwai Tsing Container Terminals, Imperial Preference
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Lecture 8: post world war 2 transformations export-led. European developments: humiliating experience for the british. Hong kong"s government"s new attitude: defeat lead to a questioning in legitimacy, decolonization had peaked during the 1945-55. Justify hong kong being a colony; had to change attitude within hong kong: development. Consequences of british defeat: end to discrimination, segregation: policies that were used to separate the. !1 residents and also colonial administration was stingy with funding(balanced budget each year) => leading to a deficit in funding. After 1945 hong kong was comprised of 1949 chinese were escaping new government in new china (the. Post-occupation economy: economic recovery: entrep t boom of 1945-1950, the korean war, 1950-53. China de-linking with the world: entrep t trade decreased after the 1950s. Two common strategies for industrialization: hong kong merchants started to manufacture instead of depending on china for supply.
