DK Travel : Hong Kong : History & Culture

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Dr Sun Yat-Sen

The reformer blasts China as “chaotic and corrupt” during a lecture at Hong Kong University in 1923. Economic boycott of the colony follows.
Duddell Street

While not spectacular, the gas lamps and old steps of Duddell Street date back to the 1870s.
Eurasian

The traditional role of this community of mixed European and Asian descent – as cultural and commercial brokers between East and West – remains undiminished. If anyone can claim to truly embody Hong Kong’s intriguing duality, it is this young, wealthy and internationally-minded community.
Fanling

Fanling’s Tang Chung Ling ancestral hall belongs to the foremost clan in the New Territories. The Lung Yeuk Tau heritage trail is nearby.

Warrior image, Fanling
Filipino

Most members of the largest ethnic minority stoically perform the low-paid occupations that Hong Kongers shun, working as domestic servants, drivers, waiting staff and bar room musicians, and remitting most of their income back home to the Philippines. Filipinas promenade in their thousands every Sunday at Statue Square (see Thomas Jackson Statue).
Flagstaff House

Built in the mid-1840s, Flagstaff House is one of the oldest colonial buildings on the island and today houses the free teaware museum.
Former Military Hospital

Broken into separate units – some abandoned – the huge, grand old building between Bowen and Borrett roads used to serve as a Military Hospital.
George VI Statue

In the Zoological and Botanical Gardens, the statue of King George VI was erected in 1941, to commemorate 100 years of British rule.
Hollywood Road Police Station

Bastions of colonial law and order, the Police Station and the old Victoria Prison still stand.
Indian

The history of Hong Kong’s substantial Indian population (there are Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs) dates from the arrival of the British in 1841. Like the Eurasians, young Indians have rejected purely Western or Asian notions of identity, pioneering instead a synthesis of both.