香港の古い建物から過去を垣間見る
[Guest Post by Gary Yeung in Hong Kong] Located on the outskirts of our busy central business district, this building in Wellington Street is one of the very few remaining pre-war tenement buildings in Hong Kong. It was built in 1879 after the great fire in central Hong Kong. The ground floor originally housed a jewellery shop. The shop was replaced by a dried seafood shop in 1930 until the whole building was made vacant by the government in 2009. Originally, there were balconies made of iron attached to the outer walls on the second and third levels of the building. Some windows were once doorways that led to balconies, […]
上祐民俗博物館と客家の文化
Guest Post by Gary Yeung in Hong Kong It was a fine afternoon at Sheung Yiu Folk Museum with a band of merry urban sketchers! From left to right, the sketch illustrates the entrance guard tower to the fortified Hakka village, a typical hat to be worn to fend off the sun while working in the paddy field, eating utensils such as bowls, cups and a teapot, a wooden machine for working on the harvested rice, a wooden bucket, rattan basket, large pot and finally on the right the inner courtyard as viewed from the entrance guard tower. Origin of Hakka Hakka people are a subgroup of Han Chinese. The […]
Hong Kongese protest against the dissolution of the Hong Kong-China border
June 20, 2014 By Gary Yeung Hong Kong Friday afternoon Hong Kong’s Legislative Council tried again to approve the North East New Territories Development Project. The approval of the project means the Hong Kong-China border will be effectively dissolved, leaving Hong Kong defenseless against any form of aggression from China’s communist regime. A previous attempt to approve the project on June 13 failed when legislators had to cut the meeting short due to protests by a huge group of Hong Kongese and a group of pro-Hong Kong legislators. June 13, 2014 Many Hong Kongese claim the Legislative Council has become an illegal body, with no standing among the people of […]