Hong Kong was ceded to the British in 1841 as a result of the Opium War. (Interesting that this was scarcely mentioned when it was handed back in 1996).
So I thought I'd look up thoughts about Hong Kong - the ones I liked most spoke of its poetry, and imaginative life.
Who said Hong Kong is too small? In size perhaps but not in it's soul and personality. Every corner in this city [provides] ... surprises, if not every hour [then] at least every day ...
- Baris Gencel, HK creative director
My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
- Wong Kar-wai
In Hong Kong, wanton means 'swallowing a cloud'.
- José Ramón Andrés Puerta
Today is also the birthday of Joy Adamson, author of Born Free and adoptive mother of lion, Elsa.
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