Hillside Chinese residences.
According to the racist Peak District Reservation Ordinance passed in 1904 by the UK ruler in Hong Kong, local Chinese were not allowed by law to live on the peak of the Peach Hill was reserved for British colonists.
A bamboo sedan in the mountainous city Chongqing in the 19th century.
Man-powered carriage rickshaw or sedan is one of the negative heritage in Chinese tradition.
1894, a Hong Kong street after a plague. Over 2,000 people died and one-third of residents fled Hong Kong.
1906, Hong Kong police force.
Note, by then Indian policemen in Hong Kong were eligible to carry a gun while the local Chinese policemen were not allowed to do so, because Chinese in Hong Kong were a conquered people.
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A bamboo sedan in the mountainous city Chongqing in the 19th century.
Man-powered carriage rickshaw or sedan is one of the negative heritage in Chinese tradition.
1894, a Hong Kong street after a plague. Over 2,000 people died and one-third of residents fled Hong Kong.
1906, Hong Kong police force.
Note, by then Indian policemen in Hong Kong were eligible to carry a gun while the local Chinese policemen were not allowed to do so, because Chinese in Hong Kong were a conquered people.
