Ep. 105 | The History of Hong Kong (Part 5)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2012

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this fifth installment of our Hong Kong history overview, we look at the final couple of decades of the 19th century. Hong Kong’s second generation is coming to the fore. They are a better educated and more sophisticated lot than those Chinese who came before them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	Hey everyone, Las La Montgomery again.
0:58.0	Part 5 today of our little Hong Kong history overview.
1:01.0	We got as far as the 1860s last time. I ended with the
1:04.8	governorship of Sir Hercules Robinson. I didn't intend to do it this way but I'm
1:10.4	finding it convenient to use Hong Kong's governors as the milestones to introduce the history of this period.
1:17.0	The man following Robinson was the sixth governor of Hong Kong.
1:21.0	Sir Richard Graves-Mcdonald in these times for McDonnell Road up in the mid levels of Hong Kong.
1:27.0	He served from March 1866 to April 1872. Under McDonnell, the peak is going to become the peak with a
1:36.2	capital T and a capital P. This will become the premier address location in
1:40.8	Hong Kong and at the time this hollowed ground was only open to those of the
1:46.1	Caucasian persuasion if you know what I mean.
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