In episode eight Stephen explains how after the Second World War Hong Kong became a global powerhouse in ship breaking and then how that slowly transformed into one of the world largest container ports. We discuss how shipping changed during the period including a story of a concrete ship.

In the first episode of a new series Dr Stephen Davies discusses post war Hong Kong and the challenges it faced. With the population tripling in a short period, a damaged harbour and a changing view towards colonies, the city had much to figure out in a short period of time.

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STEAM - a revolution in maritime trade and warfare

https://eddiewongyuichung.today/The-STEAM-of-Steam-A-Revolution-in-Maritime-Trade-and-Warfare

Strong to save: Maritime mission in Hong Kong from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strong-Save-Maritime-Mission-Mariners/dp/962937305X

East sails west: the voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855

https://www.amazon.co.uk/East-Sails-West-Voyage-1846-1855/dp/9888208209

Coasting Past: The last South China coastal trading junks photographed by William Heering

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coasting-Past-South-Coastal-Trading/dp/9881823331

Transport to Another World: HMS Tamar and the Sinews of Empire

https://www.cityu.edu.hk/upress/transport-to-another-world

Political dictionary for Hong Kong

https://www.amazon.com/Political-dictionary-Hong-Stephen-Davies/dp/9620305280

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In this episode Stephen takes us through the days before the Japanese invasion to a detailed account of the invasion itself and then onto a short discussion about the war days in Hong Kong. The podcast finishes with an account of the Royal Navy sailing into Hong Kong to accept the Japanese surrender.

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In this episode Stephen and DJ discuss the period leading up to the First World War, what happened in Hong Hong during the war and the period after. They compare Shanghai with Hong Kong at the time and talk about the advantages Hong Kong had leading up to the Second World War.

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In the fourth episode Stephen takes us through the turn of the 20th century up until World War 1. We discuss the rapid change in shipping during the period, defending the island as well as the typhoons that would sweep through the territory.

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The story wanders on through Hong Kong’s patchy early years, when clever drafting by the Chinese side in the 1843 Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue, left the newly founded port of Hong Kong looking at thin pickings. To get Hong Kong on a roll needed another war, for which a handy if quite bogus pretext was found…and which featured a small, walk-on part, the great Italian liberator Giuseppe Garibaldi and a locally built replica of the schooner America, of America’s Cup fame. At last the British controlled both sides of the central harbour area.

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We make a stab at answering ‘how come Hong Kong’, paying close if occasionally erratic attention to modern Hong Kong’s origins in British trade with China, a chance discovery of a good haven by an American sea otter fur and sandalwood trading ship’s captain, the secret machinations of the hydrographic surveyors of the Bombay Marine, and the need for any port in a storm when the anti-opium trade hurricane of Lin Zexu blew in.

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