BP GEOGRAPHIC

Karl May wrote about having been to Hong Kong around 1900… “It rained. The mountains which enclosed the bay were wrapped by clouds. What we’ve seen was so specifically European […] Hong Kong is an English creation”… It was a time a few years before the Peninsula was built, before Kowloon Station and the Clock Tower were built, when the Murray House was standing where we can see the Bank of China Tower nowadays, and most buildings were quite similar, small and in that colonial style… Still, already at that time Hong Kong was a world city, in its way