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Throughout its history, Hong Kong has been a place of ever-changing contours and skylines as well as home to a great variety of people. Here we present columns, photo galleries and stories about people who've lived in and helped shape Hong Kong, buildings preserved and long vanished, historical events, the city's changing culture and how the past shapes the present.
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Art clubs and societies have helped shape the city’s vibrant and diverse cultural landscape, since the 19th century.
Demographics have shifted over the past century, with ethnic Chinese now the overwhelming majority of the student population in these schools.
Hong Kong was decades ahead of Britain when it came to the ordination of women priests, even though that might seem unlikely today.
Often considered ‘rats of the sky’, pigeons became a popular choice for food in Hong Kong in the early 20th century because of their easy breeding.
In his 1959 book The Road, Austin Coates’ protagonist is a successful writer in Hong Kong who gives an explosively well-received lecture – but the reality was different, and still is.
Chinese medicinal wines made with herbs or animal parts have long been the go-to remedy for all sorts of maladies, from bad breath to marital inharmony.
Tea drinking is a ritual embedded in many societies across the world – but how did afternoon tea become a Hong Kong tradition?
No, he isn’t told what to write about, says Wordie, in answer to the most common question he gets, as he looks back on a quarter century documenting the region’s huge changes
As mainlanders flocked to Hong Kong after 1949, they brought with them Shanghai-style bathhouses and their many personal grooming services – and the term ‘Shanghai’ become a byword for quality
How Hong Kong’s shadowy triad-dominated underworld of paid female companions has evolved over the decades
Once upon a time, liveried guards were stationed at most high-end establishments and affluent homes around Hong Kong – now, they’re a rare throwback to a bygone era
Men with a certain bearing – often former military – were paid to walk round department stores like Lane Crawford and Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co keeping an eye out
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