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Artists fight to keep the neon lights on in Hong Kong
The defeat of China in the opium wars of the 19th century left the island of Hong Kong, including the Kowloon peninsula, the New Territories and the Outer Islands, under British colonial rule. So it remained until the night of June 30, 1997, when Hong Kong …