Citations:Hong Kong

English citations of Hong Kong

• 1850 December, “Foreign News”, in The Gentleman's Magazine‎^[1], volume XXXIV, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, page 645:

  CHINA.
  A rebellion of more than ordinary importance is in progress in this country. At the departure of the last mail from Hong Kong numerous bands of robbers were plundering and burning throughout the provinces of Kangsi and Canton, and, having captured the city of Kintschan, had advanced to within 120 English miles of Canton.

• 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎^[2], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:

  In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong.

• 1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times‎^[3], number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 2:

  Stella Hsu, 40, said that the exercises in the Taiwan Strait were intended to be an indirect threat to Hong Kong. "There is a Chinese proverb, 'Kill the chicken to warn the monkey'," she said.

• 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎^[4], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 437:

  The Chinese had promised to let Hong Kong keep its much more democratic political system, but I had the clear impression that the details of their reunion were still being worked out, and that neither side was fully satisfied with the present state of affairs.

• 2022 May 11, “Reports: Hong Kong arrests Roman Catholic cardinal, 3 others”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 14 June 2023‎^[6]:

  A 90-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal, a singer and at least two others have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China’s national security, in an action widely condemned as a further sign of Beijing’s erosion of rights in the city.

• 2022 May 24, “Hong Kong to resume activities marking 25th anniversary of return to motherland as epidemic shows downward trend: Carrie Lam”, in Xinhua News Agency‎^[7], archived from the original on 25 May 2022‎^[8]:

  Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that activities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland will resume as the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong has been on a downward trend.

• 2022 October 15, Yew Lun Tian, Eduardo Baptista, Martin Quin Pollard, “China's Xi says full control over Hong Kong achieved, determined on Taiwan”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on 16 October 2022‎^[10]:

  China has achieved comprehensive control over Hong Kong, turning it from chaos to governance, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech on Sunday at the opening of the once-in-five-year Communist Party congress in Beijing.