Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "China Observer"
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@marvelcomiks8078 : Since my parents are from HK... I still remember the old currencies as well.. before the UK's decimalisation as well....
mān (Chinese: 蚊), hòuh (Chinese: 毫), and sīn (Chinese: 仙), = Even this was still used in the 1980s....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_(currency)
My mother would still remember tael... in weight... But most people only use this for precious metal like silver or gold. And yes, you could buy gold then... And silver, was really used for foreign exchange back then. And tael is still used in many Indian places... as well as... (from my last trip back to HK)... the tea leaves people still uses this as well. And for many of their weights and measurements.
Tael/兩 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael
If you buy traditional chinese medicines, they also still weigh it in tael too. Sometimes, modernisation is not all that. Some people, say that, this is done, in order to cheat that bit of margin and earnings.. but yes.. there is that, despite many other places sell in the international metrics like kilo and litres already. Standard metrics.
Also, read the part about the actual "printing press" that minted actual metal coins for circulation that existed in Canton.... that was built by the British.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty_coinage
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@EllieMaes-Grandad : Technically speaking, it isn't a "corruption" per se, cos the PRC did not join the WTO til much later on. And they wouldn't and didn't have known the changing laws.. or even if laws applied to them etc. So this kind of situation seems somewhat unfair to most people... Cos if you were not taught, then how would you know that you were in the wrong? At the same time, they didn't have decent mayors. Cos some town mayors forced "money" into the hands of the citizens to make them stay within their own regions, and to hold tight those banks, and those regions, from economic collapse.. in a way, they are not wrong to desire to do so.. but that is also going through a big stretch too.... And then when some migrant workers move away into another region.. They also forget to remind themselves that, they are in a different region and that region might have a different economic status to the ones that they left behind ? So it feels like they are ALWAYS running around, and always chasing their own tails... hence, some people now live in fear.....
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@vanessali1365 : Before 1997.. a lot of HK chinese went up North to have like second and third wives already... like an Imperial King.. so... (and then their children came down into HK as well)... This is why HK was congested, and why they all have their so called ID cards.... It isn't like this was not known. And somebody recently posted about the various prostitution den, or other... that is frequented by the US marines.. I don't know how true that is... I am shocked to find that to be the reality, in truth.... And then this explains why these weird unwanted children, and where they came from etc. And their so called idealism.. that they were "definitely unwanted women".... I find that a bit sickening to be honest. Now I get why there had been SO many.. "Asians".... I get who they are now. A lot of those people already went into the mainland to create businesses any way. So.... maybe it is the left over Eurasians, that see themselves as Hong Kongers and not as chinese. That can explain things quite a lot. But the people who moved down into HK are not those from Canton... Before 1997... the ones who moved to Shenzen could be Cantonese.. It is when it created the so called "economic zones", that saw an influx of people, from various other provinces, who bombed it down into HK.. and created another kind of weird clusters of cities. They are mostly from rural areas... and doesn't want urban lifestyles. THIS is what worries a lot of the Urbanites in HK as well...
Watch this video...
https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
This is why.. not a 40 million region before 1997... It might have only been around a mere 10 million maybe.. or less.. Cos it was a shipping port area... It went into a decline, it made so many people move into the area... It is now a 40 million region... But many lost their homes, and then so many loans are carried out as well...
And this is the latest news: A woman owning around 1200 suites in Shenzen ? Why ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCMxwVMAMA
This is the latest news... 300 billion US dollars....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7GzNlI8vto
But I think... it is correct that we don't broadcast this.. cos it does make people fearful and it causes a blip... but.. it does beg the question, why people have this many suits etc. All they need to do, is basically to consolidate themselves. And be done with. I hope they do the sensible things !!!.... And also NOT to risk HK.. cos putting HK at risk.. puts the globe at risk.. cos many countries are also tied to HK as well... and THEN.. the PRC would be in DEEP poop poop !!!.... Cos other countries are not going to be so forgiving for dragging them down AGAIN ! The 2008 crash was about China as well...
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