The History of Hong Kong under Imperial China began in 214 BC during the Qin Dynasty. The territory remained largely unoccupied until the later years of the Qing Dynasty when Imperial China ceded the region to Great Britain under the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, whereupon Hong Kong became a British Colony.
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