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The Great Difference: Hong Kong’s New Territories and Its People 1898–2004
James Stewart Lockhart called it “the great difference”. Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories and its people and the existing British colony of Hong Kong and its inhabitants.
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By University of Hong Kong Libraries : Reading ClubJames Stewart Lockhart called it “the great difference”. Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories and its people and the existing British colony of Hong Kong and its inhabitants.