Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part X: How Plastic Flowers Built a Global Metropolis
Hong Kong once made plastic products that were shipped around the world. What's left of that history?...
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Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part VIII: The Ill Fate of Rennie’s Mill, AKA Little Taiwan
The story of an unlucky Canadian who opened a flour mill – and how it eventually became a bastion of support for the Kuomintang...
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part VI: Indigo
Indigo dyeing is making a comeback decades after the artisanal industry died out....
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part III: Squatter Factories
Hong Kong became an industrial powerhouse thanks in part to informal factories run out of shantytowns and residential flats....
Neighbourhood Guide: Wong Chuk Hang, a Factory for Creativity
An old industrial area on the south side of Hong Kong Island has been reborn as an art and design district....
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part II: Mining
Hong Kong was once home to dozens of mines. What happened to this overlooked part of its industrial history?...
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part I: A City That Made Things
A group of amateur historians is investigating Hong Kong's long and diverse industrial past....