 In 1984, the governments of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China (PRC) concluded the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, under which the sovereignty of the leased territories, together with Hong Kong Island and Kowloon (south of Boundary Street) ceded under the Convention of Peking (1860), was transferred to the PRC on 1 July 1997.The treaty was sealed by interpreter John Robert Morrison for the British and Wang Tajin for the Chinese.Harry Parkes, who was a student of Chinese under Morrison, gave his account of the ceremony