British Hong Kong (Chinese: 英屬香港) refers to Hong Kong as a British Crown colony and, later, a British Dependent Territory under British administration from 1841 to 1997.
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“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.”
—Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Quoted in Guardian (London, July 21, 1988)