[HN Gopher] The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
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       The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
        
       Author : ecliptik
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2020-01-09 05:33 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | aasasd wrote:
       | There's a sort of a documentary on Kowloon, from back in the day:
       | https://youtube.com/watch?v=S-rj8m7Ssow
        
         | SkyMarshal wrote:
         | A couple more god journalistic explorations of it from Wall St.
         | Journal and the South China Morning Post:
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         | http://projects.wsj.com/kwc/
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         | https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1191748/kowloon-...
        
       | tromp wrote:
       | Some cross section is nicely illustrated at
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       | https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/an-illustrated-cross-...
        
       | jefftk wrote:
       | _> Even a new treaty in 1898, which granted Hong Kong, Kowloon,
       | and further territories in Canton to Britain for 99 years, kept
       | the Walled City under Chinese control. A year later, in May 1899,
       | rumors circulated that Chinese soldiers were massing again in the
       | Walled City, so the British sent troops across the water. They
       | expected battle--perhaps another war--but found only the
       | Mandarin. The irate official left too, and the British took the
       | city, though the Chinese never renounced their claim.
       | Missionaries moved in and built churches and schools, pig farmers
       | from the surrounding hills took plots of land within the walls.
       | There was almost no administrative control, and the city became a
       | slum. Yet whenever the Hong Kong government tried to clear it to
       | turn it into a park--evicting the residents in the process--the
       | Chinese government always stepped in. After all, this tiny
       | rectangle of land was still officially their territory._
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       | Answers a question I'd had for a while: what was special about
       | this piece of land that made it effectively lawless?
        
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