Hong Kong

Question 1

Hong Kong - Key Themes

Answer 1

• Transplanted Communities
• Trade
• Sojourners
• Government Involvement
• Soldiers

Question 2

Hong Kong - Historical Context

Answer 2

• When; Treaty of Nanking 1842 Hong Kong secession, Suez Canal opening 1869 mass trading, BMH
• Who; “the transfer of Hong Kong to the British encouraged many merchants and trading houses to relocate their headquarters.” BMH

Question 3

Hong Kong - Trade

Answer 3

• William Jardine and James Matheson, largest trading company pre-1914, one of original trading houses, 20,000 opium chests shipped 1830-1, doubled by 1838-9, BMH
• “Hong Kong contained the greatest harbour on earth.” Clavell

Question 4

Hong Kong - Government Involvment

Answer 4

• Chinese government bans trade of opium, leads to first opium war, rise in soldier migrants
• Treaty of Nanking 1842, Hong Kong secession
• “Opening these settlements to foreign trade for Scots and others.” BMH

Question 5

Hong Kong - Soldiers

Answer 5

• “The British deployed heavily armed troops,” Meyer
• “did not seek to make their homes in the Far East.” BMH

Question 6

Hong Kong - Sojourners

Answer 6

• “their stay in the Far East was not a permanent relocation,” “before the eventual return to Scotland.” BMH
• “they viewed Asia as a sojourn.” BMH

Question 7

Hong Kong - Transplanted Communities

Answer 7

• St. Andrew’s Society of Hong Kong, 1886 700 guests, regularly over 1,000 annual St. Andrew’s Day Ball, BMH
• “Among the largest St Andrews Day celebrations were those held in the Asian city entrepôt of Hong Kong.” BMH