2. The 1950s: The ‘golden years’ of industrial development

The expansion of textile manufacturing in Hong Kong occurred only after the Second World War, when a fourth wave of refugees from China began to arrive in the former British colony (1842-1997). Amongst them were industrialists from Shanghai that installed their textile businesses in Kwun Tong on the Eastern side of Kowloon Peninsula and Tsuen Wan in the Western New Territories of Hong Kong, where the cotton spinning industry thrived by means of familial association.