Henny Sender is a managing director at BlackRock in Hong Kong and a former Financial Times correspondent.
It is part of the contemporary myth of Hong Kong that it has always been a Chinese city. But in its early days, it was a mosaic, with Baghdadi Jews, Portuguese Christians and South Asians, whether Parsees of Persian descent, Muslims, or Hindus. Today, many of this last group can trace back their roots for four or five generations, and in some cases from Shanghai before that.
