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Well over one million people in the former British colony of Hong Kong marched in demonstrations in 2019 to protest an impending extradition bill. The proposed legislation would place the Hong Kong people and visitors under mainland Chinese jurisdiction, undermining the autonomy of the region and citizens’ rights and freedoms. This lecture traces the British takeover in 1860, the building of Hong Kong into an independent, freedom-loving region, and the terms of the British retrocession in 1997.