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1. Indelible City, Louisa Lim amzn.to/3NNLr1b
2. Hong Kong’s Freedoms: What China Promised and How It’s Cracking Down. CFR. 2022
3.”Making Hong Kong China…” Michael C. Davis amzn.to/3tGjZvB
4. Hong Kong Silenced. The Telegraph
5. Hong Kong Under China’s National Security Law, w/Victoria Tin-bor Hui. CFR Podcast. 2020
6. A Concise History of Hong Kong. 2007. John M. Carroll. amzn.to/3S0UzSM
7. William H. Overholt December 2019. “Hong Kong:The Rise…”
8. UK Parliament. “Hong Kong: the Joint Declaration Research Briefing July, 2019
9. A History of Hong Kong 1997 Frank Welsh amzn.to/48DIqbP
10. Congressional Research Service. 2020. “China’s National Security Law…”
11. Smithsonian. National Museum of Asian Art. Yuan dynasty, 1279–1368
12. “In Hong Kong, Xi says 'one country, two systems'...” Shen and Pomfret 2022
13. Island district. Hong Kong Tourism Board
14. NY Times. “The Time the Iron Lady ‘Turned’ Before China”. Tatlow April 2013
15. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
Bethany Allen. 2023 amzn.to/3L9FHNM
16. treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=08000002800d4d6e
17. Website only.* The Archaeology of Hong Kong. William Meacham hkupress 2008 “at least 7,000 years”
18. TIME. “The Southern Song Emperors” Anjani Trivedi, June 2013.
19. Hayes, J. (2012). Kowloon City and Kowloon Street: The Community Institutions of a Yamen, Market, and Rural Subdistrict. In The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911: Institutions and Leadership in Town and Countryside (1st ed., pp. 163–180). Hong Kong University Press.
20. Cambridge U. Press 2016 The Qing Empire and the Opium War. Haijian Mao
21. Pew Research. December 2023. “How people in Hong Kong…”. Corichi & Huang
22. Treaty for a Lost City. C.L.Lim. 2022 amzn.to/3LlqCsu
23. LOC. Hong Kong From Fishing Village to Financial Center KESTELL and MEINHEIT
24. Spectator. George Lai “Hong Kong and the surprising truth…” May 2022
25. “Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Question of Hong Kong”
26. The secret negotiations that sealed Hong Kong’s future. James Griffiths 2017

00:00-00:40 intro
00:41-1:38 Thatcher
1:39-3:06 Early Hong Kong History
3:07-7:31 Barbarians in Middle Kingdom
7:32-9:08 Completing British HK
9:09-11:49 Chinese Pressure
11:50-15:16 The Joint Declaration
15:17-18:48 Things to Come

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