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Hi everyone, Las La Montgomery again, another China history podcast, our second in a series covering the history of Hong Kong.

Today we're going to get into all the interesting things going on around South China that later culminated in the

Opium War or the first Anglo-Chinese War. Everything I mentioned in the last

episode, well that part of Hong Kong's history has sort of been shunted aside for the part that we'll begin looking at today.

I mentioned in the last episode the history, or at least Hong Kong's historical association with China, went all the way back

to the Chin dynasty.

And at least we know for certain, for absolute certain, that there were Chinese officials coming all the way down to Hong Kong since at least the Han Dynasty due to the tomb that was

unearthed in Chiang Sha'uwan back in 1955.

Hong Kong wasn't any place of significance yet back then and I guess all the way up to the

Opium War, Hong Kong was simply another local place of no particular political consequence or worthwhile economy.

It was merely part of some county reporting to someone who reported to someone up you know, up the chain of command.

So today let's just look at the whole lead up.

We'll look at all the names of those who had top billing in this major theatrical and

historic event.

We'll also look at the events that led up to the convention of Trin B.

And then next time in part three, we'll see what happens with the Treaty of Nanjing.

This is the watershed event where most historians say

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