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Statue Square

Des Voeux Rd Central, Central

Colonial civic square with a lone surviving bronze statue and a war memorial at Hong Kong's financial heart.

This guide to Statue Square in Hong Kong opens with the ten bronze statues that once stood here, and the Japanese occupation that had most of them shipped off to be melted down in 1941. It follows banker Sir Thomas Jackson, whose statue was unveiled in 1906 and stayed through the war, and the search through warehouses after Japan's 1945 surrender that turned up a handful of survivors. Listen for which figures came back, and which never did.

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