Audio Guide for Recreating a Classic: The Best Features of The Hong Kong Story

 

 

 

Section 1: Prehistoric Hong Kong and the Dynasties

1.

 Stone Net Weight

2. 

Double-shouldered Stepped 
Stone Adze

3.

Painted Pottery Basin with Incised
Design and Perforated Footring


4. 

Stone Ornaments

5. 

Textile Fragment

6. 

Bronze Dagger with Human Mask
Design and Bow-shaped Guard


7. 

Pottery Model of a House

8. 

Pottery tan Funerary Jar

9. 

Blue-and-white Bowl Decorated
with a Civil Official



Section 2: Folk Culture in Hong Kong

10. 

Costumes of the four ethnic groups

11. 

Making Salted Fish

12. 

Silver Tripod

13. 

Traditional Wedding Costumes

14. 

Hoklo dragon-boat dance


Section 3: Cession and the Early Growth of Hong Kong

15. 

Treaty of Nanking (replica)

16. 

Convention of Peking (replica)

17. 

Convention Respecting an
Extension of the Hong Kong
Territory (replica)

18.

Public Notice of early Hong Kong

19. 

Night pass issued by the Hong Kong government, 1881 (replica)

20. 

Sun Yat-sen's letter dated
11 February 1910

21. 

Tsun Wan Yat Po dated
3 May 1919

22. 

Rickshaw

23. 

Trade Regulations of
Nam Pak Hong Guild

24. 

Hong Kong $25 banknote issued
by the Oriental Bank in 1879

25. 

Opium container bearing the label of the "Hong Kong Government Opium"

26. 

The Yellow Dragon, school magazine
of Queen's College


Section 4: The Japanese Occupation

27. 

Artist impression of the Japanese
war memorial

28. 

Military notes savings book issued by the Yokohama Specie Bank,
Hong Kong Branch

29. 

Application by the Hong Kong Soya Bean Products Company to resume operation

30. 

Hand-drawn cartoons of a
prisoner-of-war

31. 

Wooden plaque of "Governor's Office of the Captured Territory of Hong Kong"

32. 

Ceremony of Japanese surrender
in Hong Kong


Section 5: Modern Metropolis and Return to the Motherland

33. 

Hong Kong Leung So Kee
Umbrella Factory

34. 

Postcard featuring Aberdeen
Fishing Village of the 1970s

35. 

Hong Kong $1 note issued in 1949

36. 

Bullion Group Member Certificate
issued in 1947

37. 

Jumbo Teapot of Wong Lo Kat
Herbal Tea 

38. 

Entries of Regional Flag and Emblem for the Prospective Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

 

 

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