HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wu Tingfang, Comprador, Remittance
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British empire: empire over with the sun never sets , settlement colonies, resources and markets, trading posts hk. Hon kong as east asian trade bases for british: same role for others, facilitate with the britain and china - 19th century, different colonies : Natural resources, settlement, shipment trading port. Did not prevent other companies and countries to use hk as a base. Merchant can also use hk as their own base to trade with china. Entrep t trade: transshipment point: china trade, part of network for regional + internationals trade (middle point that connected 2 locations) 1980s, nancial economy: country in the west that trade in the middle point, eu maintain with china. Free port since 1841: no import /export tax, fundamental economic principle, all hong kong chinese will be treated as british subject, allow the trade to expand and the prosperity of hk. Over the 150 years of colonial rule, hk as a freeport, merchant from other spaces will.
