{"id":45896,"date":"2022-06-30T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T02:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/from-the-archive-blog\/2017\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-handover-china-timeline-1997-20"},"modified":"2022-06-30T11:21:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T02:21:51","slug":"hong-kong-handover-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45896","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong handover: timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago today, Hong Kong was returned to China, ending over a century of British rule<\/p>\n<p><strong>1842:<\/strong> Hong Kong was ceded \u201cin perpetuity\u201d &#8211; for good &#8211; to Britain after China lost the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2011\/sep\/11\/opium-wars-julia-lovell-review\">opium war<\/a>. This is how the <a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2017\/06\/30\/1842B.jpeg\">Manchester Guardian<\/a> told its readers the news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1860: <\/strong>Peace was short lived though. A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Opium_War\">second opium war<\/a>, and another defeat for China, saw the British take <a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2017\/06\/30\/1860A.jpeg\">the Kowloon peninsula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/from-the-archive-blog\/2017\/jul\/01\/hong-kong-handover-china-timeline-1997-20\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago today, Hong Kong was returned to China, ending over a century of British rule1842: Hong Kong was ceded \u201cin perpetuity\u201d &#8211; for good &#8211; to Britain after China lost the first opium war. This is how the Manchester Guardian told its readers t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45896\/revisions\/45945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}