{"id":1635,"date":"2014-02-26T16:39:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2016-07-21T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T13:32:26","slug":"hk-history-and-colonial-past-good-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/hk-history-and-colonial-past-good-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"HK history and colonial past \u2013 good to know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1637\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/uk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1637\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1637 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/uk-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"uk\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cenotaph in front of the old Hong Kong Club is unveiled in 1925: Still part of the British Empire (until 1997!)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1636\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/map1915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1636\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/map1915-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"japanese map from HK 1915\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/map1915-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/map1915-768x669.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/map1915-1024x892.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/map1915.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">japanese map from HK 1915<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A brief history, Hong Kong:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishempire.co.uk\/maproom\/hongkong.htm\">History and timeline of HK under the British Empire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/kate-lowe\/hong-kongs-missing-history\">Another source with good historic material\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This link leads to the Hong Kong public Museums&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museums.gov.hk\/en_US\/web\/portal\/history.html\">The HK public Museums<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hk.history.museum\/en_US\/web\/mh\/exhibition\/current.html\">Specially interesting: the Historic Museum with its photographic collection&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">A brief history, Hong Kong: History and timeline of HK under the British Empire Another source with good historic material\u00c2\u00a0 This link leads to the Hong Kong public Museums&#8230; The HK public Museums Specially interesting: the Historic Museum with its photographic collection&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/hk-history-and-colonial-past-good-to-know\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-pool","tag-pool","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}