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Year:
1842
Short description:
Hong Kong ceded to Britain
Medium description:
[Kirkpatrick states that it happened at the end of the first Opium War]
Tags:
history of English
in Asia
in China
Crystal, D. (1997). English as a Global Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.50]
Greenbaum, S. G. (1996). Oxford English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.10]
Kirkpatrick, Andy (2007). World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.137]
Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin [p.446]