The former British crown colony located off the southeast coast of China, comprised of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula, and New Territories. The three sites were ceded to the British by the Chinese respectively in 1841, 1860, and 1898. Hong Kong reverted to China in July 1997. The name represents the Cantonese pronunciation of the Chinese xianggang, fragrant port, from xiang, perfume and gang, port or harbor, with reference to its currents sweetened by fresh water from a river west of it.
    

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Female catkins on a willow tree, representing an archaic Chinese nickname for sexually transmitted diseases, with the message that AIDS is worse. Colour lithograph by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong, ca. 1997.

Hong Kong: Freemasons' Hall in Zetland Street. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Guidelines for a joint labour-management workplace policy on AIDS with logo illustrations by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A telephone representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

The numbers of the AIDS Hotline in Hong Kong '2780 2211' arranged in squares in a semi-circle with the silhouette of a hand pointing to the digits of a telephone below; advertisement by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A large syringe about to inject into a row of arms with a personification of the HIV virus bearing a red bandana and the pronged fork of the devil lurks nearby; a warning about the dangers of sharing needles by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

An enumeration of Chinese materia medica / Shiu-ying Hu ; with editorial assistance from Y.C. Kong and Paul P.H. But.

Inauguration of the Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation, 3rd March, 1963 : commemorative volume.

The Peak, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

L'hôpital de Cery : 1873-1973 / Claude Secrétan.

Bubonic plague. : Memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

Hong Kong : bubonic plague memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

Plague cases treated in the Kennedy Town hospital / Hong Kong.

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Bubonic plague. : Memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

Hong Kong : bubonic plague memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

Plague cases treated in the Kennedy Town hospital / Hong Kong.