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Video: when Hong Kong still had junks and rickshaws, and Shenzhen didn’t exist

Footage shot by Frenchman shows a city very different to the built-up metropolis we know today

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The southern Kowloon peninsula was still not fully developed in this 1968 shot of the Whitfield Barracks in Tsim Sha Tsui. The Kowloon Mosque is in the foreground.
Adam Wright

Take a step back to 1968 Hong Kong in this video shot by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvager. Look out for the once-ubiquitous rickshaw, the Jumbo floating restaurant, traditional junk sailing boats and – most astoundingly – shots of a green Shenzhen before it was developed into China’s first special economic zone.

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