Hong Kong, China: The Border as Palimpsest

Ho, Denise Y.

doi:10.22459/mic.05.03.2020.13

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“…Around 1942, Most areas of Guangdong province suffered from the Japanese bombing and occupation, Bao'an (the old name of Shenzhen) area was also affected [35]. Almost at the same time, the Hong Kong area fell, and a number of anti-Japanese armed forces gathered in Bao'an to fight [36,37].…”

Section: Sources Of Pahs In Core Sedimentsmentioning

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Spatial Distribution and Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments from Dachan Bay, Shenzhen City

Huang

Liu

Zhao

et al. 2023

Water

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The study investigated the composition and content of Σ15PAH in the surface and core sediments from Dachan Bay (DCB) in Shenzhen city and discussed the effects of urban development and regional energy structure on the marine environment through the spatial distribution, vertical profile, and sources of Σ15PAH. The results indicated that the concentrations of Σ15PAH in the sediments of DCB ranged between 299 ng/g and 2336 ng/g in the surface sediments and between 65 ng/g and 994 ng/g in the core sediments. The horizontal spatial distribution of PAHs content with decreasing concentrations from the coastal to central areas implied the land-based input of PAHs. The vertical profile of high PAHs concentration in 0 cm–60 cm suggested that the PAHs pollution is attributed to the urban development of Shenzhen since 1950, especially after the 1980s. According to features of the low molecular weight (LMW)/high molecular weight (HMW), PAHs diagnostic ratios and their relationships with total organic carbon (TOC) and oil, the pyrogenic PAHs were mainly from the combustion of petroleum and byproducts in the surface and 0 cm–60 cm sediments but from the combustion of biomass in 60 cm–190 cm sediments, which corresponded with the variation of energy structure in surrounding areas. This study suggested that urban development and regional energy structure have a great impact on PAHs distribution in DCB and further controls of land-based pollutant emissions are still needed.

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Spatial Distribution and Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments from Dachan Bay, Shenzhen City

Huang

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Zhao

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“…Serving as further evidence that the Walled City's wall was of secondary importance compared to its yamen, few of its specific measurements were recorded until after the Convention of 1898. A reconnaissance mission by JHS Lockhart in 1898 showed that it spanned 6.5 acres and stretched 700 feet by 400 feet in a rectangular formation, with another triangular portion extending up a hill (Lockhart 1898: 74-75;Ho 2021).…”

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From Garrisoned District to Chinese Town: Land and Boundaries at the Kowloon Walled City, 1898-1912

Wang

2022

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For most of its two-century-long existence from about 1810 to 1994, Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City housed built structures, but its classification as architecture has remained tenuous. Not until the years prior to its demolition did it receive sustained attention from architects and architectural historians as a dense, slum dwelling of informal multi-story buildings. However, the architectural nature of the six-acre area predated its late 20th-century state. From its founding as a Qing military outpost, it sustained various structural additions and renovations, including an imperial Chinese administrative complex known as a yamen [衙門] and an outer wall, after which the Walled City was named. Against the grain of scholarship that has focused on the Walled City’s postwar, informal architecture, this paper considers the site’s early years, arguing that the Walled City’s yamen [衙門] and outer wall played an outsize role in the region’s land management practices. These two architectural structures make legible the Walled City’s evolution from a Qing administrative zone to a crowded slum dwelling. The Convention of 1898 ushered in a British-led land surveying effort throughout the New Territories region of Hong Kong, followed by the creation of an intricate bureaucracy for managing land lots. This clash of empires thus saw the use of two forms of land knowledge—Qing land deeds and British cadastral land surveys—in Hong Kong. In between these systems existed the Walled City, its inhabitation falling outside the British conception of land division, but its historical contours very much shaped by the architectural boundaries that gave it its name.

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Hong Kong, China: The Border as Palimpsest

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Spatial Distribution and Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments from Dachan Bay, Shenzhen City

Spatial Distribution and Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments from Dachan Bay, Shenzhen City

From Garrisoned District to Chinese Town: Land and Boundaries at the Kowloon Walled City, 1898-1912

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