The History of Hong Kong IV

From the 1950’s to 1970’s, Hong Kong literature entered a golden age of great glory.

In 1949, with the founding of New China, many literati and writers came south to Hong Kong, forming a platform for expression of public opinions by the leftists and...

After the end of the Sino-Japanese War, there was the outbreak of the Chinese Civil War. Flocks of Kuomintang soldiers stayed in Hong Kong. They first resided temporarily in Mount Davis and then moved to Tiu Keng Leng. After a generation of people, a n...

Film production is an integrated art form that brings out messages through visual and aural elements. Films create a virtual world with light and sound, providing entertainment as well as a reflection of the reality that viewers can relate to. They d...

After the Second World War, although the Hong Kong Government adopted a series of measures to stabilise prices, the increase in wages failed to catch up with the increase in prices, leading to numerous labour disturbances in the post-war period. In 19...

Education in Hong Kong went through the transition from elite education to universal education for a few decades during the post-war period.

With the massive inflow of population from Mainland China, the Government progressively implemented an expan...

The Chinese press in Hong Kong sprang up like mushrooms after the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Since 1949, various powers have been operating newspapers in Hong Kong, giving rise to propaganda warfare. While the traditional major ne...

In the late 1950’s, a number of businesses and industrialists transferred their capital and technologies from the thriving industrial cities, such as Shanghai, to Hong Kong owing to the political turmoil in Mainland China, bringing about the economic t...