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Q: history of hong kong ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   0 Comments )
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Subject: history of hong kong
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: akcchan-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 17 Aug 2002 03:45 PDT
Expires: 16 Sep 2002 03:45 PDT
Question ID: 55547
A complete list of the past governors of hong kong. Preferably in both
English and Chinese.

Request for Question Clarification by leli-ga on 17 Aug 2002 09:45 PDT
Hi akcchan - How badly do you want the names in Chinese?  I can find
the list in English.
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Subject: Re: history of hong kong
Answered By: lot-ga on 17 Aug 2002 13:44 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello akcchan-ga
I found this Chinese and English list at:
Netfirms.com
http://ccasskwc.netfirms.com/chief.htm
You will need to ensure your browser has Chinese Big5 read capability.
If you have Internet Explorer it will usually prompt you. But I guess
you already can read it from your name ;-) Otherwise you won't be able
to read the Chinese names in the lefthand column.

Here is another English only list:
Paris-Hong Kong.com
http://www.paris-hongkong.com/articles/20011126governors/index.html

and here is an English only list of their birth and death dates:
Worldstatesmen.org
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/China_Foreign_colonies.html

Search strategy:
chinese governors names hong kong
://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+governors+names+hong+kong&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=30&sa=N

"hong kong" governors list OR listing .com.hk OR org.hk OR .gov.hk
://www.google.com/search?q=%22hong+kong%22+governors+list+OR+listing+.com.hk+OR+org.hk+OR+.gov.hk&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N

macdonnell kennedy trench maclehose davis
://www.google.com/search?q=macdonnell+kennedy+trench+maclehose+davis&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1

I hope that helps
lot-ga

Clarification of Answer by lot-ga on 17 Aug 2002 14:01 PDT
Hello,
just in case you didn't see it, you need to scroll down the page to
view the Hong Kong Governors on the page
Worldstatesmen.org
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/China_Foreign_colonies.html

regards
lot-ga

Request for Answer Clarification by akcchan-ga on 18 Aug 2002 06:28 PDT
Thanks for tackling my question. 

I don't seem to be able to open the following two URLs provided. My
browser does enable me to read Chinese.

http://ccasskwc.netfirms.com/chief.htm
http://www.paris-hongkong.com/articles/20011126governors/index.html 

I however did get the english names out of the Worldstatemen.org site.
Care to try and get me the Chinese names again?

Thanks.
Andy.

Clarification of Answer by lot-ga on 18 Aug 2002 09:15 PDT
Hello akcchan-ga
Hmm I'm surprised you cannot read the Chinese font on your browser, I
half anticipated that your browser was able to read Chinese as your
name I presumed was Chan, and that you requested the list in Chinese.
Anyhow, you can temporarily view what the Netfirms page with Chinese
text ( http://ccasskwc.netfirms.com/chief.htm ) should look like here
as a GIF file here:
http://www.mainserver.us/~http-url/chinese_english.gif
I'm slightly puzzled to why you cannot view the second URL page:
( http://www.paris-hongkong.com/articles/20011126governors/index.html
)
as there is no chinese or english text used for the list just a
graphical jpeg file of about 150 odd kb I think. (maybe you have a
slow 56k modem and need to wait for it to show up?).. but anyway the
list is essentially the same list of Governors as the Worldstatesmen
page, it just looks prettier with a graphical bar chart representation
of how long each Governor was in power. ... A bit more history, if you
didn't know, most of the Governors names have been turned into street
names in Hong Kong, and the Chinese text can be seen on the street
signs or maps too.
kind regards
lot-ga
akcchan-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
This researcher got exactly what I was looking for. Good stuff. Thanks.

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