factories

Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part V: Incense

The trees that gave Hong Kong its name fuelled local industry for centuries – but they are now at risk of disappearing....

How generations of Hakka quarry workers and stonemasons provided the granite that built the city as we know it....

Hong Kong became an industrial powerhouse thanks in part to informal factories run out of shantytowns and residential flats....

Hong Kong was once home to dozens of mines. What happened to this overlooked part of its industrial history?...

A group of amateur historians is investigating Hong Kong's long and diverse industrial past....