Stanley Market
Bustling open-air bazaar on Hong Kong's south coast, layered with colonial and wartime history.
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This guide to Stanley Market traces the ground beneath the stalls back to eighteen forty-one, when the British briefly made this fishing village their first colonial capital before shifting north within months. It then turns to Christmas Day, nineteen forty-one, when Japanese forces overran nearby St. Stephen's College and turned Stanley into an internment camp holding thousands of civilian internees for years. You'll hear how those crowded bungalows and rationed meals shaped daily survival there. Browse the silk and linen stalls near the waterfront restaurants, where the market has grown back over that same ground.
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