Sham Chun

Shamchun English Etymology Borrowed from en yue 深圳 sam1 zan3. Proper noun 1 en dated en Shenzhen. en https://archive.org/details/capitalismchines00pott/mode 1966 Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung Maurice Freedman w:Athlone Press London 66-11164 728707843 5982071M 25 https://archive.org/details/chineselineageso00free/page/24/mode/ It is part of Skinner’s argument that men with wider political and economic horizons will operate within areas defined in relation to higher-order market centres; and it may follow from this that the great lineage groupings maintained in the case of the few dominant ‘surnames’ in the southern part of Hsin-an county (such that local lineages very widely separated were grouped together) were dependent on the fact that the influential leaders of these local lineages had an active interest in the superior market town of Sham Chun, which now lies just to the north of the frontier between China and the Colony of Hong Kong. en https://archive.org/details/capitalismchines00pott/mode 1968 Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village Jack M. Potter University of California Press 35 https://archive.org/details/capitalismchines00pott/page/34/mode/ It is certain that trade and market relations between the New Territories' villages and Kowloon increased when the Kowloon-Canton Railroad was built through the New Territories. The railroad was started in 1906, and by 1915 it was completed as far as Sham Chun, a market town within China, across the Sham Chun River. en https://archive.org/details/lastinghonour00lind/mode/2up 1980 The Lasting Honour: The Fall of Hong Kong, 1941 Oliver Lindsay Sphere Books Limited London 0-7221-5542-5 877058722 16742106M 24 https://archive.org/details/lastinghonour00lind/page/24/mode/ Nevertheless two independent reports from China stated that between ten and twenty thousand Japanese troops were expected to arrive at Sham Chun, five miles north of Fanling, on 4 December for an attack on the Colony. General Maltby did not believe these reports, preferring his own intelligence sources. en 2006 w:Christina Lamb House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-torn Zimbabwe https://archive.org/details/houseofstone00chri/ HarperPress 0-00-721940-7 1075285311 160 https://archive.org/details/houseofstone00chri/page/160/ The man was a tough character who had fled Mao's China by swimming across the Sham Chun river to Hong Kong. From there he had gone to the United States where he had set up a chain of restaurants and made his fortune, then returned home. Further reading