A Concise History of Hong Kong

larly complex relationship with mainland China. As a popular Chinese say-ing went, “when there’s trouble in Hong Kong, go to China; when there’s trouble in China, go back to Hong Kong.” For most of Hong Kong’s colo- nial history, however, the trouble was almost always in China, which meant that Hong Kong was often at the receiving end of a massive wave of immi-grants from China. Hong ... ................
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