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Britain and twice defeated China on land and by sea ... it was a superior military power ... but hundreds of millions of Chinese were just across the border ... the British reinforcements were far away ... this was a way to beef up the Chinese presence ... in the minutes to ... an eight minute chase ends ... one thing after another that we just decided ... that was not a good idea ... to let the commonwealth's indeed remain under Chinese jurisdiction ... so despite the fact that the British force the Chinese officials and the soldiers to me ... as far as the BJP openness can send it to never agrees to this range ... but in fact each to ... get their hands off place ... your mouse and owns I mean is to control of mainland China in nineteen forty nine ... violent political movements ... or ... hundreds of thousands of refugees ur Center and the first three decades of communist rule ... their first stop was often the Kellen walled city ... many saw just a roof over their heads ... others though brought their professions ... 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I told them ... by January fourteen nineteen eighty seven at nine am ... colonial government announces decision to clear and demolished telling walled city ... the night before the first people were to leave the walled city center hosts but the night with the family ... I was there was a family of four generations had that been there ... last evening ... when the ... MOS mopping the floor ... p the issues ... and ... her daughters were very bitter ... and did not want to clean up ... and and no home wants that ... it has always been my home ... and even though it's can be taken away ... I plan to be taken away passed away ... I always like to ... see the ... clean and neat ... I ... as for the city has raised the mass culture began ... in Hong Kong ... something quintessentially exotic something Hong Kong ... 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I was a little bit today ... due to my ... sense of this ... to them and ... told me that my students ... for most singles ... it ... is that it is you live like that ... he did ... inside the compound still celebrate high rise urban villages mystique ... its legacy here in Hong Kong is less clear ... we're building was once rose fourteen storeys high ... there's no manicured park ... the regional Yum and the Chinese courthouse in the walled city center was preserved ... for many in Hong Kong the walled city was a shameful problem ... historical quirk many would choose to forget ... some lament that in your absolute to reassure of the Kowloon walled City ... so not only is it a ... piece of architecture that is ... our representative ... archetype all of its genre ... it is also a symbolic case of ... resistance ... he might mean I've always dream about coming back to the war since the Dow was very strange ... in between I will always find myself aam walking through the alley is ... going to buy St diet and that seemed to say Kong I and and walk up to the few things that kind of ... 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