Hong Kong

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Hong Kong
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The only traditional-looking things in Hong Kong
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Other than the only Chinese junk I saw in all of
China!
There are no more real ones
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• The island of Hong Kong became a British colony
  as a result of the Treaty of Nanjing at the end
  of the Opium War. It was returned to Chinese
  control in 1997.

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Apartment buildings
Restaurant on a boat
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The former British colony drives on the left side
of the road (the mainland drives on the right
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• The people of Hong Kong were concerned that their
  way of life, one of a capitalist society, would
  be destroyed once it became a part of Communist
  China.

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The view from the ferry at night
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• China promised that they would allow Hong Kong to
  maintain capitalism for 50 years and then it
  would be assimilated with the rest of China.
• That is not exactly what China meant

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Same menu as the one in Philly!
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• China believes that its economy will become as
  strong as Hong Kongs and capitalist, as well.
  Then the border between the two will be open.