HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Second Opium War, Laudanum, Lin Zexu
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Jan17/2014: xin-an (new peace) county, kowloon bay salt production for the whole empire, pearls at tolo harbour, remnants of a building foundation dating to the ming dynasty possible gov"t for administration reason. Chan or wong villages, for example all male descendant from the same. Possible inhabitants were immigrants shorter history because they were recent inhabitants. Different immigrants who flocked together and created their own village: similar land structures in villages. Dykes, embankments, terraces, land reclamation (shatin: people engaged in trade in the coasts, periodic markets likened to out farmer"s markets where they bring their produce. Located in cheung chan, taipo: hk island ceded in 1841. Hk wasn"t an unpopulated area when the british arrived. Hong kong became a british colony as a result of the opium war. Partly correct, partly wrong the opium war played a part, but wasn"t the central reason.
