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Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon are
traditional Chinese concepts that refer to energy waiting
to be unleashed. Steel strength and bamboo beauty reflect
the city's accumulation of energy, set free to welcome
the world through the soaring sweep of Hong Kong's International
Airport.
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Gateways and bridges
lead us across thresholds, forming the point of entry,
just as the present is the threshold between the past
and the future. The old gateway leads to the Ho Tung Garden
on The Peak, while Ting Kau Bridge, Hong Kong's newest,
links Kowloon with the northwest New Territories across
the Rambler Channel. |
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Hong Kong connects
to the world as the hub of the East Asia region. Helicopter
services are expanding to cover the Pearl River Delta
and the biplane suspended from the ceiling at Hong Kong
International Airport is a replica of the first aircraft
to fly in Hong Kong, a Farman biplane flown on March 18,
1911. |
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The
soaring city skyline reflects Hong Kong's ambition and
testifies to its success - and property on The Peak marks
the pinnacle of rewards. |
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The
character seung means "commerce" and could equally
well stand for Hong Kong, Asia's financial centre for
the 21st Century. The heart of that centre beats along
a stretch of road in Central that includes the Bank of
China, Cheung Kong Centre and HSBC's main building alongside
the Standard Chartered Building. |
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Constrained
by space, Hong Kong's planners are continually called
on to provide inventive infrastructure solutions. And
every great city has its peak moments of speed and stasis
seen here on Gloucester Road, Wan Chai. |
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Tea
is synonymous with Chinese and tradition. Clockwise from
top left: Flagstaff House, completed in 1846 and Hong
Kong's oldest Western building, is now the Museum of Tea
Ware; a selection of choice teas await the customer; perfect
service; detail of a couple taking tea from a 19th Century
China Trade painting. Timeless elegance in a modern version
of an ancient design. |
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People
of all faiths are free to worship in Hong Kong. St John's
Anglican Cathedral was inaugurated in 1849; the Tian Tan
Buddha on Lantau Island, the world's largest seated outdoor
bronze Buddha was inaugurated in 1993. |
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Hong
Kong's Museum of Medical Sciences was founded in 1905
as the Pathological Institute a decade after bubonic plague
swept the Tai Ping Shan area of western Hong Kong Island.
For many years the Institute, perched above Tai Ping Shan,
produced vaccines against infectious diseases. The recently
opened Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building at the University
of Hong Kong will help to provide medical education for
this century. |
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In
peace or at pace, Hong Kong people go about their business
in diverse ways. This is well-represented by sculptor
Rob Mururaa in his 1990 work Hong Kong People , which
stands beside the Conrad Hotel on Justice Drive, Admiralty. |
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The
historic Hong Kong Observatory building in Tsim Sha Tsui,
completed in 1883, and the Peak Tower built in 1995 symbolise
the span from Steam Age to Space travel. |
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Some
finer points of angularity appear in concrete and glass
at Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong , and the structure of
The Center, in Queen's Road Central. |
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