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List of people on the postage stamps of Hong Kong

This is a list of people depicted on the postage stamps of Hong Kong. British Hong Kong issued stamps from 1862 to 1999. Stamps of Hong Kong were then issued under the control of China. The date when the person depicted first appeared on stamps is listed in parentheses.

History edit

 
An 1862 96-cent stamp featuring Queen Victoria. One of the first seven stamps issued that year, it has the words "HONGKONG" and the Chinese characters "先時" for "cents".

Established in August 1841, the Postal Department (later renamed to Hongkong Post) on 8 December 1862 published its inaugural postage stamp featuring Queen Victoria's image, which Ferdinand Joubert did the engraving of.[1][2] The department issued seven versions of the stamp.[3] In the period between 1862 and 1935, Hong Kong published only definitive stamps and issued new stamps every time there was a new British monarch who presided over Hong Kong.[4] The stamps featured images of the monarchs such as King Edward VII in 1903, King George V in 1912, and King George VI in 1938.[4] The Postal Department released the first stamp featuring Queen Elizabeth II on 5 January 1954. It subsequently released four differently designed stamps with her image.[1] In 1894, the Postal Department featured the Scottish missionary James Legge on a postage stamp, making him the first individual not from the British royal family to be shown on a stamp.[5]

The Postal Department released commemorative stamps less frequently and in tinier batches.[4] The commemorative stamps celebrated events and people.[4] They used the stamps to celebrate royal events such as the Wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips that featured the couple and Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II that featured Elizabeth II.[6] To celebrate the 1974 Hong Kong Arts Festival, they used stamps to highlight Chinese culture and attract foreigners attendees even though the festival was not exclusively focused on Chinese culture.[7] The stamp architect selected Cantonese opera masks to appear on the stamp. Each mask had a person who was legendary or was from ancient times.[7] The list included the mythical Monkey King, the military general Guan Yu, and the judge Bao Zheng.[7]

In the 1980s, the Postal Department began releasing commemorative stamps featuring celebrities.[8] In November 1995, to commemorate movie stars, Hong Kong released a collection of four stamps titled "Hong Kong Movie Stars" (Chinese: 香港影星) featuring Bruce Lee, Leung Sing Poh, Yam Kim-fai, and Lin Dai in 1995.[8][9] According to the scholar Tai On Hei, "These movie stars were already household names at that time, and had even become famous overseas."[10] The stamps' denominations were HK$1.20, HK$2.10, HK$2.60 and HK$5.[8] Owing to the stamps' popularity, the Postal Department released a second collection of four movie star stamps in 2001, this time featuring on each stamp one male and one female movie star who had been great partners in movies.[8] The duos were Ng Cho-fan [zh] and Yin Pak, Sun Ma Sze Tsang and Tang Bik-wan, Cheung Wood-yau [zh] and Man-lei Wong, and Mak Bing-wing and Wong-Nui Fung.[8] The stamps' denominations were HK$1.30, HK$2.50, HK$3.10, and HK$5.00.[8] In June 2001, the Hongkong Post issued a collection of stamps titled "My Wishes" (Chinese: 我的祝願) featuring athletes and stars from the literary and art arenas who were from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.[8] The goal was to support the Beijing bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[8] The people featured on the stamps included Zhang Yimou, Ge You, Mao Amin, Gong Li, Yang Lan, Zhao Wei, and Zhang Ziyi.[8] On 8 November 2005, the Hongkong Post released a set of stamps in a collection titled "Hong Kong Pop Stars" (Chinese: 香港流行歌星).[11] It commemorated five Hong singers who had died: Danny Chan], Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Roman Tam, and Wong Ka Kui.[11]

After the Handover of Hong Kong, the Hongkong Post released stamps that commemorated historical Chinese figures with significance to Hong Kong like Sun Yat-sen and Deng Xiaoping instead of current political leaders.[12] In the first twenty years of the 21st century, Sun appeared numerous times on the stamps.[12] The appearances included 12 November 2006 and 12 November 2016 to commemorate his 140th and 150th birthdays, respectively.[12] Sun spent some of his formative years in Hong Kong, where he formed his revolutionary ideas that later led to the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.[12] Deng was the leader who had proposed the one country, two systems principle of how to govern Hong Kong.[12]

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  • Deng Xiaoping (2004), a collection of two stamps was released on 22 August 2004 to celebrate the centennial of his birth.[12][22][23]

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A 10-cent stamp depicting Elizabeth II at her coronation in 1953

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References edit

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  3. ^ a b Dai 2022, p. 58
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Wong 2019, p. 59
  5. ^ a b Covell 1999, p. 392–393
  6. ^ a b Pang 2022, pp. 13
  7. ^ a b c d e Pang 2022, pp. 13–14
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab "非常投資：發掘明星票面值" [Very Investment: Discover the face value of stars]. Oriental Daily (in Chinese). 2005-09-29. Archived from the original on 2022-06-04. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  9. ^ a b c d e 钟衍瀛 (2001). "走上邮票的香港影星" [Hong Kong movie stars on stamps]. Popular Cinema [zh] (in Chinese). No. 6. Archived from the original on 2022-06-04. Retrieved 2022-06-04 – via cqvip.
  10. ^ Dai 2022, p. 63
  11. ^ a b c d e f g 吴素威, ed. (2005-10-19). "张国荣梅艳芳黄家驹 五已故歌手出纪念邮票" [Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Wong Ka Kui. Commemorative stamps released for five late singers]. Eastday [zh]) (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2022-06-04. Retrieved 2022-06-04 – via 中国宁波网.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g Dai 2022, p. 66
  13. ^ a b "For Princess Anne's Nuptials". The New York Times. 1973-10-14. Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  14. ^ a b Jefferies et al. 2012, p. 261
  15. ^ "童軍百周年郵票發行" [Scouting Centennial Stamp Issue]. Oriental Daily (in Chinese). 2007-03-02. Archived from the original on 2022-06-04. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
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  19. ^ a b c d Jefferies et al. 2012, p. 297
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  21. ^ Jefferies et al. 2012, p. 258
  22. ^ "集郵迷輪購鄧小平紀念郵票" [Philatelic fans buy Deng Xiaoping commemorative stamps]. Apple Daily (in Chinese). 2004-08-23. Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 – via collection.news.
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  24. ^ Feng, Jian 馮堅, ed. (2017). 話說英國兩千年 [Speaking of Britain for Two Thousand years] (in Chinese). Taipei: 崧博出版. ISBN 9787501983452. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
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  26. ^ a b Dai 2022, p. 61
  27. ^ Jefferies et al. 2012, p. 255
  28. ^ a b Jefferies et al. 2012, p. 274
  29. ^ a b Jefferies et al. 2012, p. 281
  30. ^ Pang 2022, pp. 12–13
  31. ^ Jefferies et al. 2012, p. 262
  32. ^ Jefferies et al. 2012, p. 267
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  35. ^ "三地發行郵票紀念鄭和" [Three places issue stamps to commemorate Zheng He]. Apple Daily (in Chinese). 2005-06-06. Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 – via collection.news.
  36. ^ "鄭和下西洋紀念郵票月底發行" [Commemorative stamps for Zheng He's voyages to be issued at the end of the month] (in Chinese). Information Services Department. 2005-06-05. Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  37. ^ Qiang, Yan 强燕 (2005-06-27). "郑和下西洋600周年纪念邮票周二发行" [Stamps commemorating the 600th anniversary of Zheng He's voyages to the West issued on Tuesday]. New Express Daily [zh] (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05 – via Sina Corporation.

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Further reading edit

  • Snee, Charles, ed. (2015). Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue 2016. Sidney: Amos Media. pp. 853–879. ISBN 978-0-89487-500-7.
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