Photography by Peter Shanks

Futurist and monumental, the region is one of the great financial centers of Asia, combining a regime with strong Western and ancient traditions of oriental stamp.

It is the view in the bustle of its markets, filled with imitations of watches and wallets and seafood and ducks hanging head down, always with the haggling and shopping ritual. Is visible in its colorful festivals, the Chinese New Year at the helm, but Hong Kong, certainly not China. Hundred fifty-five years of British rule (1842-1997) left their stamp on the archipelago that spreads in the Pearl River delta, on the southern coast of the Sea of China, and has no less than 260 islands (the Hong Hong is the most popular and crowded, but only the inhabited islands are ten!). (más…)