Kowloon Walled City, a place that many people have not heard of, is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. This is a haven for the poor and a paradise for sin. This is the most chaotic and mysterious place in the Hong Kong Island police films and underworld films, but now the Kowloon City that people see in the movie is just a scene of props.
There is only one film that was really filmed in Kowloon City, that is, the crime film "Serious Crime Unit" released in 1993 and starring Jackie Chan, Zheng Zeshi and Wu Yongwei, which was still Approved by Jackie Chan to shoot the film after spending a lot of money. In the year of the release of "Major Crimes Unit", Kowloon City collapsed in the deafening sound of demolition.
In 1840, the smoke of the First Opium War filled the entire southeast coast of China, and since then China has begun to degenerate into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, opening up the painful history of modern China. As a result of the First Opium War, the Qing government signed the treaty of Nanking, an unequal treaty with Britain, which humiliated the country, and Hong Kong Island has since left the embrace of our country.
Probably the first Opium War made Britain taste the sweetness, in 1856, led by Britain and France, the United States, Russia as the support, the four countries began to jointly invade China, 4 years of time not only made China's coastal devastation, but also with a "Beijing Treaty" to push China to a deeper abyss, the Kowloon Peninsula was also separated from the mainland.
In 1898, the British once again shamelessly and forcibly demanded that the Qing government sign a land lease treaty south of the Shenzhen River north of Kowloon, and the "Special Article on The Expansion of Hong Kong Boundary Sites", which is what we now often call the "New Territories Lease", forcibly leased China's territory in 1999. However, there is one exception in the Kowloon Peninsula, which is still under the jurisdiction of the Qing government, that is, Kowloon City.
The Kowloon Walled City dates back to the Song Dynasty and has always been the garrison of successive dynasties, and after the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, the Kowloon Peninsula, facing Victoria Harbour, was in jeopardy on three sides. In order to ensure the safety of the Kowloon Peninsula, the Qing government chose to expand the Kowloon Village and mobilize the Dapeng Battalion, which was originally stationed in Dapeng Bay, to counter the British who were staring at China across Victoria Harbour.
But later everyone knows that what should not be stopped is still unstoppable, but after the British occupied the Kowloon Peninsula, because of the garrison, they gave up the occupation of Kowloon Village, and it is estimated that since the surrounding area has been completed, only the lonely city of Kowloon City has nothing to care about. Therefore, the garrisons, officials, catchers and residents in Kowloon City were left behind.
Later, the Japanese invasion of China broke out, and from 1941 to 1945, Hong Kong Island was occupied by the Japanese army, and the walls of Kowloon City were forcibly demolished. Having lost its walls, Kowloon City began to become the best place for all kinds of sleepers, wanderers, homeless people and criminals, and it began to become a "sin city".
Although to outsiders, Kowloon Village is so terrifying that even the British police dare not enter it, the people who live here are very satisfied, because the rent here is very low and it is regarded as a harbor for the poor. After the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong in 1974, security in Kowloon City was strengthened, and although it was still a paradise for criminals on the surface, in fact, by 1984, the crime rate in Kowloon City was only 0.84%, which was smaller than the 1.42 on Hong Kong Island.
But it is also true that Kowloon City is mixed and difficult to manage. Therefore, in 1987, the Chinese and British governments joined forces to decide to demolish Kowloon City. Six years later, in 1933, Kowloon City was demolished, and the last Qing army of the Qing Dynasty died with the sound of "rumbling" demolition.