Editing City Series:Volume3b Preface (section)

==Timeline==
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Summary of Hong Kong History


1840: Opium War begins. England wins and Hong Kong Island is ceded to them. Their rule begins under a policy of laissez-faire.

1842: The First Divine Punishment War begins. The Flight Song is born at the bottom of Hong Kong Cave.

1843: History’s first Nein Engel, Huang Daquan, is born.

1863: Archs Trade Organization, the foundation of Archs RDC, is established.

1895: A terrorist attack by radicals from the Revive China Society begins the Second Divine Punishment War.

1898: England demands the Qing dynasty take responsibility for the Second Divine Punishment War, so the Kowloon Peninsula and 235 islands are conceded to England until 1997.

1912: The Republic of China is established.

1913: World War One begins.

1918: World War One ends.

1912: The Communist Party rises in China.

1925: Under the anti-British guidance of Liu Shaoqi of the Chinese Communist Party, Hong Kong begins a 17 month strike. The strike leads into the Third Divine Punishment War.

1939: World War Two begins.

1941: Hong Kong falls under Japanese rule until 1945.

1945: World War Two ends.

1949: The People's Republic of China is established.

1950: The Korean War begins. A flood of war refugees enters Hong Kong.

1956: The massively inflated working class riots, causing the Kowloon Riots.

1958: The Fourth Divine Punishment War begins. The General appears and saves Hong Kong.

1967: The Cultural Revolution begins in China and anti-British riots occur in Hong Kong as well.

1973: The Fifth Divine Punishment War begins. Hong Kong Yard is established.

1984: Discussion between England and China reconfirm Hong Kong’s return.

1989: China begins economic reform.

1994: Lee Hu and Luna Azuel die.

1997: Huang Daquan dies. The Sixth Divine Punishment War begins.



“Flight Song”

彼街通天地 That city connects heaven and earth

墜朝地仰雲 I fall in the morning and look up to the clouds from the earth

昇夜空謳月 I rise at night and sing with the moon in the sky

惟望再笑君 All I desire is to smile with you again



Map Locations:

Top left: Tsing Yi

Top middle left: Mong Kok

Top middle right: Kowloon

Below Kowloon: Hung Hom

Middle: Hong Kong Island

Bottom Left: Lamma Island

Bottom Right: Beaufort Island


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