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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
Hee!
Asking a Chinese would be like asking an Irish person about Britain and Ireland.
Do you want a reading list from the Opium Wars to the Boxer Rebellion with excursions to Hong Kong and Female Pirate Admirals?
The Siege at Peking by Peter Fleming (brother of) is good but not an ebook.
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My knowledge of the history and geography of the East leaves a lot to be desired. But, after making that post, I did think about Singapore and Hong Kong.
I knew that the Brits were in Singapore until it was taken by the Japanese near the beginning of WW II. I assume that Britain must have gotten it back for a while after hostilities ceased. I think that Britain had a 99-year lease on Hong Kong from the Chinese. Britain returned it to the Chinese, perhaps earlier than stipulated in the lease; at any rate, it was returned about 25 years ago. I think that it was a ceremony connected with that I watched then on live TV.
But _that_ is about all that I know about the subject.