![]() ![]() This technology makes the documents in this collection more accessible to those without paleography skills and enables powerful inclusion in digital humanities/ scholarship projects. This enables unexpected discoveries not possible from traditional finding aids. HTR allows handwritten documents to be full-text searchable, just as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) allows printed books, newspapers, and other works to be searched. The hand-written material included in the collection will have Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) applied, making it one of the first Gale Primary Source archives to do so from scratch. It also sheds light on the British Empire in Asia, China’s transformation from empire to republic, mainland China-Hong Kong relations, and the international politics of East Asia. This collection of British Colonial office correspondence relates to Hong Kong as a British colony between 18, and provides detailed information on the political, military, social, economic, and external development of Hong Kong. ![]() An essential primary source archive for researching the history of Hong Kong in the context of Modern China and the British Empire in Asia. ![]()
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