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Straightly speaking, the buildings and its surrounding area (at first
4700 square meter, later reduced to 2600 square meter while under
Japanese occupation) were not part of Hong Kong until 1977. It was an
independent (self-governing) part of China in the middle of a British
colony Hong Kong between the 2nd Opium War and 1997 because of a
loop-hole in the treaty between the Qing and the British government.