What is British Hong Kong?
[[File:Flag of Hong Kong (1959–1997).svg|thumb|Flag]] [[File:HK-architecture-BOCHK-Bank-of-China-Building-under-construction-1988-00.jpg|thumb|British Hong Kong]] '''British Hong Kong''' ({{zh|t=英屬香港}}) was a [[colony]] and [[British Dependent Territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]. It was [[Hong Kong]] when it was controlled as part of the [[British Empire]]. The British [[government|governed]] Hong Kong from 1841 to 1997, except for a small amount of time when the [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong|Japanese took over Hong Kong]] during [[World War II]]. During the [[First Opium War]] in 1841, the British took over [[Hong Kong Island]]. The British took over the [[Kowloon Peninsula]] in 1860 and the [[New Territories]] in 1898.<ref>{{cite book |title= A biographical sketch-book of early Hong Kong|url= https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket0000enda|last= Endacott|first= G. B.|author-link=George Beer Endacott|author2=Carroll, John M. |year= 2005|orig-year= 1962|publisher= [[Hong Kong University Press]]|isbn=978-962-209-742-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a-lease-no-one-thought-would-run-out-1281384.html|title=A lease no one thought would run out|date=3 January 1997|last=Vines|first=Stephen|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=16 July 2020}}</ref> ==History== [[File:HK North Point Java Road ICAC HQ Building Logo 2 a.jpg|thumb|Photo of Hong Kong ICAC building]] Hong Kong was given by the [[Qing Dynasty]] to the British Empire in 1841 under the [[Treaty of Nanking]]. [[Kowloon]] was added to the area of Hong Kong in 1860 under the [[Convention of Peking]], and [[New Territories]] was added in 1898 under the [[Second Convention of Peking]]. In 1941–1945, Hong Kong was ruled by the [[Japanese Empire]] during [[World War II]]. In 1984, [[People's Republic of China]] and the [[United Kingdom]] agreed under [[Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong]] that Hong Kong was to be returned to China on 1 July 1997. ===Japanese occupation=== The Imperial Japanese oc